http://en.redtram.com/ designobserver.com Copyright (c) 2008 RedTram. All rights reserved. webmaster@redtram.com (RedTram) en Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:53:37 GMT 300 100 50 http://en.redtram.com/ http://img.en.redtram.com/rsslogo.gif 26527 | Reflections on The Ephemeral World, Part One: Ink http://en.redtram.com/go/113580334/top100/ 113580334 An elegy to the makeready — those sheets of paper, re-fed into a press to get the ink balances up to speed, leaving a series of often random, palimpsest-like, multiple impressions on a single surface — in the digital age. Sat, 31 May 2008 01:29:55 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/113580334/top100/ 26527 | Cranbrook Commencement Address http://en.redtram.com/go/112625591/top100/ 112625591 I come to you, like all commencement speakers, as an emissary from the future." The commencement address delivered by Julie Lasky at the Cranbrook Academy of Art on May 9, 2008. Wed, 28 May 2008 16:10:33 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/112625591/top100/ 26527 | KT Meaney: Greening the Grocery Store http://en.redtram.com/go/111432839/top100/ 111432839 It turns out that the "recycling symbol" at the bottom of my yogurt container had nothing to do with its recyclability. So why was it there? My curiosity led to findings around which I built a design class. Sun, 25 May 2008 11:07:39 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/111432839/top100/ 26527 | O.H.W. Hadank: The Classicist Even a Modernist Could Love http://en.redtram.com/go/110392719/top100/ 110392719 Paul Rand held Hadank in the highest esteem because he practiced modernist formal principles even though he did not follow its dogma or style. And most important, as Rand said "Hadank was then and always an original." A profile of Thu, 22 May 2008 16:20:14 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/110392719/top100/ 26527 | Credit Where Credit Is Due...Or Not http://en.redtram.com/go/109409322/top100/ 109409322 Dmitri Siegel explores the various practices of design attribution. Mon, 19 May 2008 21:36:57 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/109409322/top100/ 26527 | Iron Man: The Screen Behind the Screen http://en.redtram.com/go/108239010/top100/ 108239010 Iron Man is the fulfillment of all the computer-integrated movies were ever meant to be, and by computer-integrated, I mean just that: beyond the technical wizardry of special effects, this is a film in which the computer is incorporated, like Fri, 16 May 2008 23:51:04 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/108239010/top100/ 26527 | Rosamond W. Purcell: Taking Things Seriously XII http://en.redtram.com/go/107647841/top100/ 107647841 On a sunny morning in the early 1970s my neighbor, the small shrill widow of a minister and professor of theology at Harvard, dragged me into her house and opened the drawer of her late husband's desk. Choose, choose... Thu, 15 May 2008 13:00:52 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/107647841/top100/ 26527 | John Bowers: A Lesson from Spirograph http://en.redtram.com/go/106405622/top100/ 106405622 1967's "Toy of the Year" was the embodiment of controlled emotion in the face of that decade's social unrest and conflict: John Bowers remembers The Spirograph. Mon, 12 May 2008 00:51:56 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/106405622/top100/ 26527 | National Design Awards http://en.redtram.com/go/106019865/top100/ 106019865 were announced today, and Michael Bierut is the recipient of the Design Mind award. We can think of no more suitable award for this writer, critic and working designer. Thu, 08 May 2008 08:59:03 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/106019865/top100/ 26527 | Chicago International Poster Biennial http://en.redtram.com/go/105616348/top100/ 105616348 and may be submitted by any poster designer in the world with no entry fee. Physical entries must be received in Chicago no later than May 27, 2008. Wed, 07 May 2008 02:54:02 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/105616348/top100/ 26527 | The Sky Is Falling http://en.redtram.com/go/105407850/top100/ 105407850 scenarios would not, as Dr. Flicker said, "happen for billions of years yet," the doomsday clock is steadily ticking away. Wouldn't it be nice if we could go back to the days when fiction was not fact. Tue, 06 May 2008 12:33:26 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/105407850/top100/ 26527 | National Scrapbooking Day http://en.redtram.com/go/105407844/top100/ 105407844 Scrapbooks (like these) remind us that creating an album from saved matter does not necessarily provide an accurate self-portrait..." An essay by Jessica Helfand from her new book on the occasion of National Scrapbooking Day. Tue, 06 May 2008 12:33:22 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/105407844/top100/ 26527 | Slide Shows on Design Observer http://en.redtram.com/go/105407838/top100/ 105407838 A reminder to our many readers that Design Observer has a rich archive of slide shows for your enjoyment: Design Observer: Tables of Contents Tom Vanderbilt: Blast-Door Art Don Hamerman: Baseballs Tom Manning: Spam Cartoons Andrew Blauvelt: Peter Seitz Portfolio... Tue, 06 May 2008 12:33:19 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/105407838/top100/ 26527 | David Cabianca: Two Lines Align http://en.redtram.com/go/104593094/top100/ 104593094 After seeing the Fella and McFetridge show, in its context — in California, in LA, in the Frank Gehry-designed Disney Concert Hall — it occurs to me that this was also a show about the trajectories of modernism, specifically, the Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:57:30 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/104593094/top100/ 26527 | Teddy Blanks: Errol Morris's Problem With Photography http://en.redtram.com/go/104076086/top100/ 104076086 Standard Operating Procedure is a gorgeous, pulsing stopwatch of a movie, and like all of Morris's best work, its structure is based on a rhythmic series of revelations. Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:06:16 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/104076086/top100/ 26527 | Adam Levy: The Passion of George Lois http://en.redtram.com/go/102422825/top100/ 102422825 How adman George Lois chronicled the sixties with his cover designs for Esquire magazine, with a peek behind the scenes at the legendary famous Muhammad-Ali-as-St. Sebastian photoshoot. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:15:40 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/102422825/top100/ 26527 | Allan Chochinov: Ode To My Toaster http://en.redtram.com/go/101690220/top100/ 101690220 Ode To My Toaster, a poem by Allan Chochinov. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:51:30 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/101690220/top100/ 26527 | The Design Observer Playlist http://en.redtram.com/go/99540436/top100/ 99540436 I've never worked in a design studio where music wasn't played pretty much constantly. Nor can I recall visiting a studio where music wasn't being played, or where designers weren't wired up to headphones and bobbing rhythmically to unheard sounds. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:46:53 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/99540436/top100/ 26527 | The Next Page: Thirty Tables of Contents http://en.redtram.com/go/97664477/top100/ 97664477 Last year, on the occasion of "Next," the AIGA's Biennial National Design Conference in Denver, Design Observer published a little book, The Next Page: Thirty Tables of Contents. We are sharing it here as a slide show... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:10:59 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/97664477/top100/ 26527 | Luc Sante: Taking Things Seriously X http://en.redtram.com/go/96087983/top100/ 96087983 One night in 1991, just before Christmas, I was walking down St. Mark's Place in Manhattan, heading for my tiny but charming bed-sit on Sixth Street. I'd been around the neighborhood for more than twenty years by then. I... Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:55:19 GMT http://en.redtram.com/go/96087983/top100/