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Unbeige 2013-02-12 20:03:54
This week, Amazon is hiring a studio photographer, while Eileen Fisher needs a web graphic designer. The Boston Globe is seeking a digital designer, and Hanley Wood is on the hunt for an art director for an architecture magazine. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro. Studio Photographer Amazon (Seattle, WA) Web Graphic Designer …


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Unbeige 2013-01-17 15:50:50
Among Zhukova’s picks are Sebastian Wrong’s “Logger Head” table light and a miniature “Therapeutic Toy” elephant by Renate Müller. “Design really thrives when it pushes boundaries,” says Dasha Zhukova, founder of the Moscow-based Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. And while she adores edgy furniture, such as Jonathan Muecke‘s primordial carbon fiber and epoxy chair, as a self-described couch potato, she’s also a …


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Unbeige 2013-01-24 07:04:48
The crafty types at Etsy are taking their love for collage to the digital realm by scooping up photo collage app Mixel and its team of mobile-savvy stars for an undisclosed sum. Created by designer Khoi Vinh and developer Scott Ostler, Mixel allows users to make, share, and remix collages with results that been described as both “gorgeous” and “highly addictive.” …


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Unbeige 2013-01-23 13:30:41
Another day, another smashing design-themed documentary! In Reconversão, director Thom Andersen trains his lens on Pritzker winner Eduardo Souto de Moura with a blend of old-school (think Vertov and Muybridge) and up-to-the-second HD techniques. Zooming in on 17 of the Portugese architect’s buildings and unrealized projects, and overlaid with his own words (via a guest voiceover), the film gives Souto de …


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Unbeige 2013-01-18 11:55:41
In 1977, all of the special people spent Halloween night at Studio 54 to celebrate Liza Minnelli‘s buzzy Broadway turn in The Act. Oscar Abolafia snapped this photo of a group of post-show revelers that included Andy Warhol (clutching a Playbill), Diana Vreeland, and Steve Rubell. The following year, Vreeland, then in the Costume Institute phase of her legendary career, joined …


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Unbeige 2013-01-22 18:45:39
This week, Morgan Stanley is hiring a senior visual designer, while Kate Ryan needs a production assistant. The Nation is seeking a creative director, and Wechsler is on the hunt for a design director. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro. Senior Visual Designer Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) Production Assistant Kate Ryan (New York, …


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Unbeige 2013-01-29 18:30:06
This week, Stonehill College is hiring a graphic designer, while BOLD Worldwide needs a freelance art director. WWE is seeking a photo editor, while Northern Virginia magazine is on the hunt for an art director. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro. Graphic Designer Stonehill College (North Easton, MA) Art Director – Freelance BOLD …


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Unbeige 2013-01-30 15:29:40
London’s Design Museum, which opened in 1981 in a former basement boilerroom of the Victoria & Albert Museum, is gearing up to move out of its current home–once a banana warehouse–into a $125 million new building, the former Commonwealth Institute, spruced up by OMA and with interiors by John Pawson. Until the big move, slated for 2015, the museum is pulling …


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Unbeige 2013-02-07 18:40:59
The Science Channel, our source for the highly unscientific adventures of misanthropic savant Karl Pilkington, has marshaled the forces of CGI animation for Strip the City. The new six-part series aims to “strip major cities naked of their steel, concrete, air, ocean, and bedrock–layer by layer, act by act–to explore their hidden infrastructure and solve key mysteries surrounding their origins, geology, …


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Unbeige 2013-01-22 10:58:29
The fashion world was rather slow to board the digital bandwagon, but we’ve come a long way from conversations about fashion and technology that began and ended with Hussein Chalayan‘s famous table skirt. Now anyone can purchase (and sometimes rent!) last season’s Naeem Khan at a hefty Gilt discount and pre-order next season’s Eddie Borgo baubles (from Moda Operandi), while emerging …


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Unbeige 2013-01-25 12:25:04
Scrumdiddlyumptious. Chocolate busts of artist Dieter Roth in progress at Hauser & Wirth’s new downtown NYC exhibition space. (Photos: UnBeige) Willy Wonka and Sigmund Freud would surely have agreed that making 385 chocolate busts of one’s father is not something that can be rushed. And so, with the “Selbstturm” (Self Tower) barely half full of chocolate casts, it was decided that the …


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Unbeige 2013-01-17 10:15:43
Fashion force Fern Mallis was back on stage at New York’s 92nd Street Y last night for a chat with the irrepressible Betsey Johnson. The designer, clad in a black tee that proclaimed her a “rocker,” shredded leggings, wedge sneakers, and a hot pink tutu that she would later shimmy out of to get comfortable, bounded on stage with a signature …


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Unbeige 2013-01-21 09:34:24
(Rendering by OLIN) Change is afoot along the Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s four-block-long outdoor plaza (fear not, the crowd-pleasing front steps will remain just as they are). Last renovated four decades ago with an eye to vehicular access, the plaza is undergoing a $65 million transformation masterminded by an OLIN team led by partner Dennis McGlade. The new outdoor plaza will open …


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Unbeige 2013-01-23 20:19:28
This year our friends at Art21 are celebrating the big 100–that’s how many artists have appeared to date on its PBS Series Art in the Twenty First-Century, first broadcast in 2002. From Richard Serra talking tools in his Manhattan studio (from 2000, below) to Sarah Sze (artist #100, she’ll represent the United States later this year at the Venice Biennale) on …


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Unbeige 2013-01-28 11:05:57
Balthazar Korab?s 1988 photo of the Sydney Opera House. ? Architect turned photographer Balthazar Korab has died at the age of 86. ? Elsewhere in legendary architectural photographer news…be sure to pick up a copy of Ezra Stoller, Photographer, new from Yale University Press. The book’s co-authors, Erica Stoller and Akiko Busch, will discuss how the man, the myth, the photos on Wednesday …


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Unbeige 2013-01-18 11:55:41
In 1977, all of the special people spent Halloween night at Studio 54 to celebrate Liza Minnelli‘s buzzy Broadway turn in The Act. Oscar Abolafia snapped this photo of a group of post-show revelers that included Andy Warhol (clutching a Playbill), Diana Vreeland, and Steve Rubell. The following year, Vreeland, then in the Costume Institute phase of her legendary career, joined …


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Unbeige 2013-02-05 11:09:13
New York’s Grand Central Station is an ideal spot for a flash mob–remember when Moncler Grenoble’s stone-faced model-dancers took to the floor in Carlo Mollino-inspired skiwear? As part of the big 100th birthday bash, the insta-happening experts at Improv Everywhere recruited 135 LED-flashlight-wielding performers to light up Grand Central’s grand windows, mesmerizing passersby. The impressively choreographed affair, a project cooked up …


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Unbeige 2013-01-25 21:29:02
Contract magazine has named Joey Shimoda (pictured) its 2013 Designer of the Year, praising the Los Angeles-based architect and designer’s for the “quality and breadth of his design work, his ability to transform the mundane, his consistently strong client relationships, and the respect he garners in the profession.” With the motto “extra superfino,” 13-year-old Shimoda Design Group has completed projects ranging …


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Unbeige 2013-01-28 15:39:18
The Sundance Film Festival wrapped up yesterday in Park City, Utah, and our pick for a breakout is Tony Donoghue‘s Irish Folk Furniture. The charming animated documentary (watch it below) follows the fate of 16 pieces of traditional folk furniture as they are repaired and return home. “In Ireland, old hand-painted furniture is often associated with hard times, with poverty, and …


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Unbeige 2013-01-29 06:02:01
“…[T]he Library of Congress is now stockpiling the entire Twitterverse, or Tweetosphere, or whatever we?ll end up calling it?anyway, the corpus of all public tweets. There are a lot. The library embarked on this project in April 2010, when Jack Dorsey?s microblogging service was four years old, and four years of tweeting had produced 21 billion messages. Since then Twitter has …


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