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Stefan Sagmeister, Bill Drenttel, Jessica Helfand Among 2013 AIGA Medalists

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Unbeige 2013-02-05 15:16:55
Frederic Goudy had one, so did Philip Johnson and Robert Rauschenberg. The Eameses had two. Pentagram is awash in them. George Lois wears his to bed. We’re talking about AIGA Medals, the graphic design world’s highest honor. Allow us to be the first to tell you this year’s banner crop of medalists: John Bielenberg, William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, Jonathan Hoefler …

Flash Mob Lights Up Grand Central Station

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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 …

Got Games? Kongregate Launches $10 Million Fund for Indie Game Developers

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Unbeige 2013-02-05 10:45:04
Ready to unleash the next Angry Birds on the mobile-gizmo-obsessed world but need some help with logistics (i.e., cash)? Check out the Kongregate Mobile Developers program, a $10 million fund for independent developers of free-to-play mobile games. Launched yesterday by the online gaming platform Kongregate and backed by its parent company GameStop, the initiative will offer developers not only capital but …

Metropolitan Museum Debuts Web Series

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Unbeige 2013-02-04 15:09:59
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is continuing its multimedia push with 82nd & Fifth, a new web series that will highlight 100 works of art from the Met collection. Each episode includes ?Watch,? a two-minute audio and visual essay with a curator and a work of art from the Met collection that changed the way he or she sees the world; …

Drink Champagne, Design Tiny Chair, Repeat

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Unbeige 2013-02-04 12:31:06
The bubbly furniture fans at Design Within Reach have selected the winners in their champagne chair contest, which last month challenged all comers to create an original miniature chair using only the foil, label, cage, and cork from no more than two champagne bottles (glue was the only permitted adhesive). Taking top honors is the “Rockin’ Chaise” (pictured at far left) …

Grand Central Celebrates 100 Years with Stamps, Nick Cave?s Dancing Horses

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Unbeige 2013-02-04 08:56:11
New York’s Grand Central Terminal turns 100 this month, kicking off a year of tributes to the beloved “cathedral of transit” that escaped demolition in the 1970s by way of a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Sam Roberts offers a historical and cultural perspective in Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, newly published …

In Brief: Google Maps North Korea, Calvin Klein Going to Super Bowl, Dine with Philippe Starck

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Unbeige 2013-02-01 11:04:57
• Google is fleshing out a national map of long-inscrutable North Korea. The largely crowdsourced cartography debuted this week on Google Maps. • Calvin Klein is going to the big game–or at least his underwear is. Here’s a sneak peek at the company’s first Super Bowl ad, a 30-second spot directed by Fabien Baron. Look for it to run at the end …

Quote of Note | Robert A.M. Stern

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Unbeige 2013-02-01 06:14:53
“When I was a young architect, I never took a camera traveling because I thought I would look like a tourist. Then I had a realization: I was a tourist. So I began by taking slides, and for the past decade or so, digital photos. When I look at buildings, I take as many photos as possible–it actually helps me to …

In Which We Await Larry Gagosian?s Waffles

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Unbeige 2013-01-31 23:50:13
“Big Waffles,” a 2010 painting by Mary Ellen Johnson Lately Larry Gagosian has been the subject of even more media scrutiny than usual, fueled by assorted lawsuits (Ronald Perelman, Jan Cowles) and high-profile artist defections (Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama). New York magazine accompanied Eric Konigsberg‘s investigative profile with a photo-illustration (by hitandrun) that attempted to depict the uberdealer as Hirst’s famous diamond-studded …

Aperture Relaunching: Sneak a Peek at the Redesign

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Unbeige 2013-01-31 12:54:22
Aperture is the storied photography quarterly that we’ve been known to purchase in duplicate, reading one copy with an X-Acto knife close at hand so as to surgically remove the suitable-for-framing images by the likes of Lee Friedlander, Joel Sternfeld, Mary Ellen Mark, Cindy Sherman, and Daido Moriyama. Sixty years after the publication’s founding–by a group that included Minor White, Ansel …

Adobe Illustrator, in a Class by Itself

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Unbeige 2013-01-31 06:49:37
The Mediabistro mothership continues to heed your cries for more design courses, and February is all about Adobe Illustrator. Over four weeks of online learning fun, budding ad designers will get up to speed on Illustrator under the expert guidance of designer and art director Soohyen Park, an Ogilvy veteran. By the time March rolls around, like an expertly rendered lion, …

London?s Design Museum Reveals ?Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things?

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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 …

Printed Matter Preps First LA Art Book Fair

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Unbeige 2013-01-30 09:47:34
The good people of Printed Matter are heading west for the first annual LA Art Book Fair. The left coast counterpart of the beloved NY Art Book Fair gets underway tomorrow evening with an opening preview and runs through Sunday (we’ll take a Larry Clark pop-up shop over football any day) at the Geffen Contemporary, the Frank Gehry-renovated police car warehouse-turned-exhibition …

Nicholas Kirkwood Wins British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund

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Unbeige 2013-01-30 06:59:31
In a first for an accessories designer, shoe maestro Nicholas Kirkwood has clinched the 2013 British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund, the across-the-pond version of Anna Wintour and co.’s wildly successful initiative to boost young design talent. Now in its fourth year, the BFC/Vogue award provides the winner with �200,000 (at current exchange, about equal to the stateside $300,000 purse) and …

Design Jobs: Stonehill College, BOLD Worldwide, WWE

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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 …

For Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas Will Return to ?Fundamentals?

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Unbeige 2013-01-29 15:30:24
Following David Chipperfield‘s push to dispense with architectural egos and “create a tent where [architects] could show architecture instead of themselves” at last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, Rem Koolhaas has signed on as curator of the 14th exhibition, which gets underway in June 2014. The OMA founder is also looking to escape the cult of personality–ixnay on the starchitects!–by returning to …

Naval Battle Ends as Emeco, Restoration Hardware Settle Chair Dispute

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Unbeige 2013-01-29 06:51:11
From left, Emeco’s famous Navy Chair and a Restoration Hardware “Naval Chair” ripoff. Restoration Hardware has raised the white–make that Silver Sage!–flag in the dispute concerning its “Naval Chair,” a shameless rip-off of Emeco’s Navy Chair, the aluminum classic designed by the Hanover, Pennsylvania-based company in 1944 for the U.S. Navy and in production ever since. In October 2012, Emeco announced that …

Quote of Note | James Gleick

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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 …

Animated Furniture Dazzles at Sundance

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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 …

In Brief: RIP Balthazar Korab, Copycat Construction, Elbaz Maquillage, Ballet Buzz

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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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