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Watch Tim Gunn Get Quirky

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Unbeige 2013-05-21 10:15:25
Say “Tim Gunn” to ten people and nine of them well immediately reply, “I love Tim Gunn!” (The tenth doesn’t watch television or read style manuals). The debonair and decanal Project Runway mentor, who has a vivid childhood memory of touring FBI headquarters and seeing J. Edgar Hoover dressed as Vivian Vance, is bringing his sharp eye and make-it-work mantra to …

JR on HBO: Inside Out Documentary Debuts

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Unbeige 2013-05-20 16:30:24
Watch French street artist JR get his TED Prize wish for a global art project in Inside Out, a fresh-from-the-Tribeca-Film-Festival documentary that debuts tonight at 9 p.m. on HBO. Director Alastair Siddons (Turn it Loose) crisscrosses the globe–from Tunisia to Haiti, North Dakota to Pakistan–as people around the world come together to follow JR’s simple directions to “take a portrait photograph …

Parsons Students Repurpose Luxe Leather Scraps for ?Wasteless? Competition

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Unbeige 2013-05-20 15:30:39
Waste less, want more? That’s the thinking behind Wasteless, a sustainability-minded competition that challenged Parsons students to transform Poltrona Frau‘s leather leftovers–freshly harvested from the floor of its factory in in Tolentino, Italy–into luxe accessories and objects. Designer and Parsons faculty member Andrea Ruggiero led a group of 15 Parsons product design students in the seven-week project, and earlier this month …

School of MFA Boston to Honor Glenn Ligon

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Unbeige 2013-05-20 10:11:30
A production still from 2012 episode of Art in the Twenty-First Century that featured Glenn Ligon. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will honor artist Glenn Ligon with its SMFA Medal. First presented in 1996, the award honors individuals “who have made a significant and lasting impact on the art world, and recognizes their commitment to diversifying and communicating …

Seven Questions for Bradford Shellhammer, Fab?s Chief Design Officer

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Unbeige 2013-05-17 12:50:12
Fab made a splash in Milan with more than cushy Warhol Brillo boxes. The online retailer invited designers from around the world to pitch new products for the chance to have them produced and sold on Fab. More than 150 creative types from 30 countries turned out, and now it’s onto New York. In addition to showcasing its new private label …

In Brief: International Museum Day, Artful Eateries, Top University Museums

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Unbeige 2013-05-17 06:05:37
• Those in New York have plenty to keep them busy this weekend, as NYCxDESIGN rolls on and ICFF arrives. Whether you’re in Manhattan or Mumbai, Saturday is International Museum Day, an annual initiative of the International Council of Museums to encourage public awareness of the role of museums in the development of society. This year’s theme is “Museums (memory + …

Vits? Reengineers Dieter Rams Chair

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Unbeige 2013-05-16 07:40:39
Best known for its widely coveted modular shelving system designed by Dieter Rams, Vits? recently scored the exclusive worldwide license to Rams’ original furniture designs. First up on the relaunching pad for the London-based company is the designer’s 620 chair, which hits the market this month following a top-to-bottom reengineering. Every last purpose-designed stainless steel bolt in the chair, designed for …

Target Teams with Phillip Lim for Fall Collection

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Unbeige 2013-05-16 05:05:09
So many collaborations, so little time. Last night in New York, Versace launched its Versus Versace J.W. Anderson capsule collection, for which the British designer mixed 90′s-infused androgyny (Body Glove brights, cropped and slashed black knitwear) with house signatures (gold lion heads, safety pins). Those not in the market for pricey unisex clubwear should mark their calendars for the ides of …

In Renovated UN Chamber, Salto & Sigsgaard?s Council Chairs Take Center Stage

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Unbeige 2013-05-15 11:39:14
The Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United Nations, originally designed by Danish architect Finn Juhl in 1952, reopened last month after a three-year renovation. “We all moan about the United Nations, but there was no supranational body, no international forum [in 1914],” says Harold Evans in this week’s New York Times Book Review Podcast, discussing the status of global communication at the …

Rosanna Scotto: My First Big Break

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Unbeige 2013-05-15 09:15:56
If you don’t live in the New York TV market, you may know her from the cable clip show “The Soup” as the woman who puts up with co-anchor Greg Kelly‘s antics. Rosanna Scotto, morning anchor for New York’s FOX owned station WNYW, sat down with the mediabistroTV crew to talk about how the antics of world-famous director Woody Allen are what …

Metropolitan Museum Unveils Imran Qureshi?s Roof Garden Installation

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Unbeige 2013-05-15 02:13:49
There’s more to the Met this spring than PUNK. Writer Nancy Lazarus headed up to the roof. (Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art) And how many rains must fall before the stains are washed clean? This question, posed by Pakistani poet Salima Hashmi, is at the heart of Imran Quereshi‘s latest work, created for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s roof garden. ?This is an …

Design Jobs: Environmental Defense Fund, Hanley Wood, NCARB

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Unbeige 2013-05-14 14:48:51
This week, the Environmental Defense Fund is hiring a designer, while Hanley Wood needs an art director. NCARB is seeking a graphic designer/videographer, and Advocate Media is on the hunt for a magazine/web designer. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro. Designer Environmental Defense Fund (New York, NY) Art Director Hanley Wood (Washington, DC) Graphic …

Pantone Debuts Paint Collection with Valspar

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Unbeige 2013-05-14 08:07:49
The Pantone licensing machine is chugging along nicely, even if Emerald and Tangerine Tango make for rather tough sells when it comes to cosmetics (Sephora remains undaunted). The latest focus for the company’s rainbow tour is the home. JCPenney is rolling out a Pantone Universe line of bed and bath items, from Peach Parfait sheet sets and Purple Magic pillows to …

Quote of Note | Alvin Lustig

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Unbeige 2013-05-14 06:01:18
“The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialization within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.” -Alvin Lustig (1915-55) in The Designer …

Kickstart This: Brinca Dada?s Stunt Brothers

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Unbeige 2013-05-13 16:30:40
Toymaker Brinca Dada is best known for its stunning modernist dollhouses and “BiModal” building blocks–curvy, asymmetric wooden shapes that we’ve previously suggested deploying in games of Masochist Jenga. Now the promoters of beautiful fun are in the critical final days of a fundraising campaign for a line of fun, thoughtfully designed wooden toys that teach kids simple principles of science. Meet …

Listen Up: BMW Backs Frieze Sounds

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Unbeige 2013-05-13 09:05:16
Sound works and art fairs are rarely compatible. There’s the impetus to keep moving (must…see…everything), the ambient murmur, and for exhibiting galleries, the difficulty of peeling off fairgoers to don headphones or enter a booth for a bit of aural stimulation. Frieze New York tackles these problems with the help of luxury cars and and technology. The fair, which runs through …

Twelve Outstanding Objects at Collective Design Fair

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Unbeige 2013-05-11 06:39:27
At left, the booth of Jousse Entreprise at the inaugural Collective Design Fair, which runs through today at Pier 57 in New York. (Photos: UnBeige) NYCxDESIGN is upon us, and among our favorite happenings so far is Collective, a new design fair that has brought 22 galleries from around the world to New York’s Pier 57. Spearheading the impressive initiative is Steven …

Get Your Gatsby On: Merch Multiplies, Stephen Colbert Finally Tackles Fitzgerald?s Classic

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Unbeige 2013-05-10 22:34:23
What Gatsby? From left, Kate Spade’s book clutch, a Mac decal inspired by the the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, and a t-shirt from the 1925 first edition jacket by Francis Cugat. Baz Luhrmann‘s adaptation of The Great Gatsby arrived in theaters today, old sport, and everyone from here to Montenegro–little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!–is trying to get a piece …

PBS Special Explores ?10 Buildings That Changed America?

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Unbeige 2013-05-10 17:05:33
What are the most influential buildings in America? Jot down a top ten list and then compare your picks with the structures that get their close-ups in 10 Buildings That Changed America, a special that premieres Sunday night on PBS. Host Geoffrey Baer criscrosses the country on a journey that spans two centuries of architectural innovation, from Thomas Jefferson‘s neoclassical Virginia …

Seven Questions for Nature Conservancy Creative Director Christopher Johnson

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Unbeige 2013-05-10 15:05:44
The idea of picking up an iPad to commune with nature sounds counterintuitive–until you’ve swiped and tapped through an issue of Nature Conservancy magazine, which mails to the environmental conservation organization’s 650,000 members on a bimonthly basis. “Our digital edition features the same engaging stories and stunning photography as our print magazine, plus exclusive photo galleries, videos, audio commentary, interactive maps, …

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