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- AIGA Connecticut Lecture
O'Donnell Company
19 November at 18:00
It's been simplified. It's been really simplified. With the advent of new technologies, is it time for Harry Beck's 1931 London Underground map to be completely overhauled? Plus: 100 years of London tube maps. [MB]
The new monograph from architect Wendy Evans Joseph is a pop-up book. Amazing production by Melcher Media and legendary paper engineer Kees Moerbeek. [MB]
Design Observer's Job Board has new jobs in Philadelphia, Chicago, NYC, Toronto, Milan, Dallas, SF, Portland and Knoxville. Companies hiring include Philadelphia University, The New School, Minted, SAP, QVC, American Eagle, Martha Stewart Living and Deutsche Telekom. Post your job today. [JSC]
A teaser trailer has been released for the upcoming documentary The Visual Language of Herbert Matter by Reto Caduff. Here, Jessica Helfand reflects on "All Things Matter" and her personal experience in the darkroom making photograms with this master designer. [WD]
AOL releases it's new logo design and brand identity. The redesignby firm Wolff Olins, is reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, Gigaom, The Guardian,Huffington Post, Fast Company,Media Bistro, Brand New andparodied by others.....
Of the many things we are thankful for, Maira Kalman might just top the list. [JH]
Via Citiwire, Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, proposes what he calls "button parks" — networks of small, informal green spaces that could be created by citizen-activists in collaboration with local land trusts. [NL]
"A game of international runic one-upmanship ensued, in which the band with the least legible logo was the most authentic." The evolution of heavy metal design. [MB]
"Beep beep, who got the keys to the jeep?" Behold the power and the glory of Hype Williams. [MB]
In Paris, everything looks like dessert. And previously on DO. [MB]
Celebrate the end of 2009, The International Year of Astronomy, with exquisite retro posters by self-taught "math nerd" Simon Page. [MB]
A spectacular gallery of Christmas cards by artists, from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. (Click on the image to see all the others.) (Thanks to Victoria Brown.) [JH]
Design Observer's Job Board has new jobs in Baltimore, Tel Aviv, SF, Chicago, Seattle, NYC, Menlo Park, Singapore and Minneapolis. Companies hiring include Maryland College of Art, Hewlett Packard, ODA, Vendorsbay, Checkerboard, IA Collaborative, Key Tech, SRI International and Emmis Communication...
New York University’s Urban Design and Architecture Studies program, along with The Sir John Soane’s Museum, is offering an M.A. degree in Historical and Sustainable Architecture. Th...
