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Unbeige 2009-11-14 14:34:02
Here's one for your holiday wish list: Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Modern Album Cover. Out today from Taschen, this lushly illustrated coffee table book celebrates the career of Steinweiss, now 92, who revolutionized the way music was packaged and marketed. As Columbia Records' first art director, he created colorful, whimsical …


Unbeige 2009-11-16 08:17:44
As predicted, the rebranding of the 89-year-old Art Directors Club has been greeted with controversy, at least here on UnBeige, where one astute commenter compared the new logo, designed by Trollbäck + Company, to that of David Barton Gym (the identity of which was created by Edward Leida). Meanwhile, Jakob Trollbäck …


Unbeige 2009-11-18 14:00:34
Poor Thomas Kinkade. All he wanted to do was paint light. Recently there were those mean people he had to pay $2.1 million to because they said he and his company scammed them. Now there are a bunch of San Franciscan artists who are poking fun at his well-lit artwork at …


Green Inc. 2009-11-18 13:30:33
The economics of ecosystems and other energy and environment news from around the Web.


Climate Progress 2009-11-16 13:16:30
When we last left David Broder back in April, the dean of the DC press corp and the sultan of the status quo centrists, he was criticizing Obama for “launching highly controversial efforts in health care, energy and education.”  What was his argument?  “Each of those issues has a history in …


Unbeige 2009-11-16 12:00:45
A couple of web critiques to start your day off both a bit more reasoned and maybe more cranky. First up, by way of a tip, comes Perry Garvin's review of the Whitney Museum's new site redesign. We'd seen it when it launched a little while back, and played with it …


Unbeige 2009-11-16 13:56:56
Not too much of a surprise here, given his ever-growing profile and that he did the same job last year to apparently client-pleasing effect, but it's now official that David Rockwell has been handed the production design gig for the upcoming Academy Awards. You'll recall our various posts about his work …


Art City 2009-11-16 11:26:34
Hello everyone. Happy Monday. Here is my weekly rundown of the art events that are opening and closing throughout the state this week. OPENINGS “The Gift of Art: Holiday Cheese & Cheer” at the Stanford Art Gallery and Studios on Nov. 18 "Annual Juried Student Art Show" at Beloit College on Nov. 19 "The Neopolitan …


World Changing 2009-11-16 12:21:44
Joe Romm: Some very good news on the international front, as the UK Guardian reports today: During a hastily convened breakfast meeting in Singapore, the US president...


World Changing 2009-11-16 12:49:13
WorldChanging Team: by Alex Aylett A study released yesterday [press release ] by Georgia Tech planning Professor Brian Stone recommends planting millions of trees to create extensive...


WorldCAD Access 2009-11-17 18:08:44
Dassault Systèmes launched V6R2010x of its PLM software. But in Dassault fashion, the press release makes the feature set incomprehensible -- at for a CAD guy like me:V6R2010x includes major deliveries in support of DS's PLM 2.0 and Social Innovation strategy serving new audiences within all communities, including traditional industry-oriented ones.The …


Media Matters - Global Warming 2009-11-18 09:32:51
Fox News anchor Alisyn Camerota falsely claimed that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lawyers Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel "questioned the science behind global warming policy" in a YouTube video that is critical of cap-and-trade proposals, and Fox News reporter William La Jeunesse suggested that the EPA's demand that the lawyers take …


Green Inc. 2009-11-18 14:54:31
Kumi Naidoo, who was named executive director of Greenpeace International this month, shares his views on a range of energy and climate topics in an interview with Green Inc.


Climate Progress 2009-11-18 15:32:01
If you follow the debate around the energy/climate bills working through Congress you will notice that the drill-baby-drill opponents of this legislation are now making two claims. One is that the globe has been cooling lately, not warming, and the other is that America simply can?t afford any kind of cap-and-trade/carbon …


WorldCAD Access 2009-11-16 09:19:00
There was a time in the mid-1990s when Visio Corp set forth its plan to become the vendor of drawing tools. It already had the Visio diagramming software; it had acquired the IntelliCAD design software; momentum was on its side. What could possibly go wrong?*A half-decade earlier, Autodesk Inc had an …


Green Inc. 2009-11-16 13:20:13
As part of a new round of federal funding for geothermal projects, AltaRock Energy will receive $25 million for a demonstration project in Oregon.


Climate Progress 2009-11-16 14:16:43
Freakonomics got super freaky. And super wrong. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner are to blame for the global financial crisis. See, back in 2005, they wrote “Freakonomics,” a wildly successful book brimming with interesting stories about why incentives matter and how actions have unintended consequences. Indeed, incentives do matter, and …


Inhabitat 2009-11-16 15:56:57
A recent competition to design a creative zone in Beijing yielded this fascinating proposal to incorporate open space and an economic zone on the edge of the Beijing River. The winner of the competition was UNstudio, whose approach to the challenge was to compress the two distinct zones together in an …


WorldCAD Access 2009-11-16 15:11:15
Reports The Register:Canon is buying Dutch printer vendor Oce for ?730m [US$1.1 billion], in a move that could herald further consolidation in the imaging market.The Japanese giant will launch a tender offer for the Dutch firm's shares, in a deal which is being seen as broadening Canon's footprint in the higher …


World Changing 2009-11-16 11:33:13
Yale Environment 360: by John Wargo Long a ubiquitous part of modern life, plastics are now in everything from diapers to water bottles to cell phones. But...


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