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Point-counterpoint: is fashion a serious subject?

Admit it. You love it. It matters.

New York Times, September 2, 2007


At S.F.’s de Young Museum, fashion exhibitions upset fine art fans

San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2007 

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Although it is true that designers generally rely on clients, pleasing them is not the ultimate purpose of our work. What designers share with our clients is a public, an audience. Our clients wouldn’t need us at all if we weren’t helping them reach that public. Our broader responsibility is to the ultimate users of our work.

Ellen Lupton, What Is Success? [Voice: AIGA Journal of Design]

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Posh Nosh, episode 1: Architect’s fish and chips

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Edinburgh’s National Galleries of Scotland decorates for the show Andy Warhol: A Celebration of Life … and Death [The Guardian (article and slideshow)]

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Richter, Gerhard.  Cologne Cathedral, 2007.  Image from Pixels, Not Parables, for Cologne Cathedral’s Stained Glass Window | [Wired]

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Verhoeven, Joep. Lace Chain Link Fence, 2005. [via Dezeen]

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Climbing Wall at Illoiha Omotesando gym in Tokyo, Nendo, 2006. [via dezeen]

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Tree House

A house made of trees, that is. And not the dead kind (id est lumber), but the living, photosynthesizing kind. MIT architect Mitchell Joachim proposes weaving tree branches into walls, roofs, and lattices to make buildings (growings?) (via Sierra’s shared items in Google Reader)

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Unethical Consumption?

Making conscious choices as a consumer is an important step in changing your impact on the world. However, as George Monibot argues here, it’s only a preliminary step, and it doesn’t work for everyone. (via Sierra’s shared items in Google Reader)

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Performance of Steal a Million, Sosolimited, 2006. “Invited to perform at the annual Boston ICA fundraising gala at the Cyclorama, sosolimited began its search for the perfect marriage of money, art, and copyright piracy. When we stumbled upon Audrey Hepburn’s 1966 classic, How to Steal a Million, we knew we found our movie.” Watch the piece.

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