Design

A selection of gallery and museum listings.

Images from the collections at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont.

A new president takes over for the first time in 23 years.

Frieze New York is to take place on Randalls Island in May 2012.

On view this month at the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, is a showcase of Ms. Yeager’s self-portraits that showcase the height of her fame, in the sorts of coy poses she imaged would captivate a fan base of hard-breathing males.

“Yarn bombing” seems to be having its moment in pop culture.

Watch as pieces of micro-origami unfold on water through capillary action. (via constant seige) Tags: origami   video

LeafSnap is a new iPhone app that uses facial recognition techniques to identify trees based on photos of their leaves. Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, flowers, fruit, petiole, seeds, and bark. Leafsnap currently includes th

Whoa, this is a fascinating look at how the Boston Globe used to deliver the news to people using handwritten signs in a heavily trafficked area of Boston. Breaking news -- a bank holdup, a bus accident, the death of FDR -- was quickly featured on the st

A couple nights ago against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Dirk Nowitzki scored 48 points and only missed three shots, prompting Bill Simmons to wonder if that was some sort of record. Jerod from Midwest Sports Fans dug into how useful a stat like points per

From the Feb 2011 issue of Vanity Fair, a profile of big-wave surfer Ken Bradshaw by William Langewiesche. Bradshaw rode what was, at the time, the largest wave ever surfed. Later he told me it was like skiing down an avalanche chute in the mountains. He

In a somewhat flawed test -- e.g. part of the In-N-Out burger package was confiscated by airport security -- the Shake Shack beat Five Guys and In-N-Out in a Serious Eats taste test. Clearly the In-N-Out burgers making their trans-continental trip by pla

Tracey Emin's work may be as depraved, egotistical and confrontational as ever - there's even a used tampon thrown into one of her new pieces - but she's never been more in favour. Not only has she been swept up in the arms of the Hayward Gallery this mon

The Park Hotel Hyderabad is the result of a riotous infusion of influences, from classical Indian architecture to high-end, big-style 1960s kitsch, all carefully balanced by renowned US architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill. Perched on the edge of the Huss

Those that have marvelled at Norman Foster's Gherkin or drooled over Tadao Ando's Glass Block House can now own the next best thing. The architects' models and artworks for these buildings are about to go under the hammer at London's La Galleria Pall Mall

China is heading towards becoming the world's biggest economy. This we know. Yet what remains poignant is the speed in which its consumer needs and tastes are evolving. See our highlights from the Shanghai Motor Show 2011 A simple tale told by Volvo's des

For its first new museum in a century, the Belgian city of Antwerp needed a building that would impress and seduce in equal measure. The commanding sandstone and glass tower designed by Dutch architects Neutelings Riedijk certainly delivers. Built on the

Mimi Zeiger's Micro Green is succinct but high on style. This mini monograph, subtitled 'Tiny Houses in Nature', is designed to appeal to everyone who has ever fantasised about a rural retreat, a weekend bolthole or even going the full Thoreau and ditchin

Artist Ed Bing Lee knits burgers and hot dogs. Reminds me of the knitted sushi we saw a few years back! More over at HighSnobiety

I wont even comment on what other plastic shoes these Nike Gato’s ($42) remind me of. What do you think? Via Nice Kicks

Photos by Jan Kempenaers of incredibly interesting (LOST anyone?) sculptures erected by the communist regime in the former Yugoslavia. Via ISO50 A more in-depth story of their origins can be found here. Powerful photographs of mysterious monuments in form

Ckie (pronouced seeky) is an interntational funding and pre-ordering platform for product design. Yes, like a Kickstarter clone, but this time just for product design. There aren’t a ton of projects for you to explore quite yet, but they’re ge

Steve Harrington is opening a show up at Beams in Tokyo on the 18th of May. All proceeds from sales of artwork will be donated to tsunami victims. The show will consist of 15 new sculptures, 20 new screenprints and a photo print wall. Here’s a sneak

Go buy (and then read) my friend Eli’s book The Filter Bubble. If you want an appetizer before you read, watch his TED talk. Heck, watch his TED talk anyways. Eli Pariser delivers an eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on t

Portraits created for GQ Magazine by Charles Williams - www.madeup.org

The exhibition APATHY FOR THE SETTING SUN is a collection of new works created by artist Joshua Webb during his time at the Rhode Island School of Design (USA) and whilst living in New York city. The title of the show refers to the notion that if the sun

We were in charge of the Lacoste Legends launching presentation in Argentina. Lacoste Legends brings together 12 legendary collaborators from the worlds of music, media, design and retail, to create an exclusive collection comprising 12 shoes. For the la

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Sculptures of letters showing anatomical features.

As any artisan knows, curving wood can be a time-consuming, labor-intensive and skill-exacting process – so why start bending new boards when there are barrels full of already-bent oak in used wine barrels? French oak forms the basis for each of the

Rather than think of outdoor space as an interstitial zone between public and private, lovely little central courtyards like this work like exterior rooms – spatially equivalent and as significant as interior zones – especially prevalent (and

What can this futuristic high-tech toilet do? Better question might be: what can’t the Numi do. A first front-mounted sensor raises the lid when you walk into the bathroom, while a second detector on the side near the floor lets you flip up the seat

Issues of accessibility and sustainability drove this site-specific design solution: a narrow road required small modular pieces, while client wishes dictated extensive material reuse. Chilean architect Juan Luis Martínez Nahuel started with patio doors f

This house does not hold back, packed with strong lines and angles so sharp you could cut yourself just looking at them. Halos of light coupled with contrasting black-on-white accents combine with these stark geometric forms to shape inspiring spaces. Sur

Mirrors have a long history in novels of magic and fantasy, but the glass that goes into them still provides a source of mystery even in the realm of science – is it a supercooled solid or a highly viscous liquid, for instance? This series of strang

Based on identity theft for the 2011 ISTD (International Society of Typographic Designers) ‘fakery’ brief, this is the fictional story by David Tolmie of a psychiatric patient with dissociative identity disorder (DID). It highlights all of the patients a

People always want the shortest route from A to B. Urban Designers often want something different. They deliver esthetic landscaping where we are forced to walk the designated routes. But why? In the Netherlands burocrats discuss at least three times abou

This guy is really into everything. Typography, murals, vector, fashion you name it. He’s doing it. Matt W. Moore is the founder of MWM Graphics, a Design and Illustration Studio based in Portland. Matt works across disciplines, from colorful digital ill

This is a very unusual dock, excellent to remember the time when he had to go to arcades to play pinball and pacman, just slide your iPad into the iCADE Arcade Cabinet! To use the iCade, gently slide the iPad into the cradle. The iCADE uses Bluetooth to c

A full glass of optimism! Is your glass half full or half empty? If you are like most people, you are never quite sure. But this clever 7-ounce glass reminds you that Half Full is youll always find refreshment. So drink up, any way you look at it. This Do

The Urban Quiver is original and something different from the typical bulky(nerdy) camera bag. It has a tubular shape allowing the camera gear to be held more efficiently,if you think about it, camera gear is long and shaped like this bag. The shape of th

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Artist and designer Jeroen Verhoeven has created a polished steel desk using the profiles of two of his studio colleagues and computer aided design/ manufacturing.

Jeroen Verhoeven has created a large chandelier adorned with 502 blue butterflies, in fact solar panels cut into the shapes of four different breeds of butterfly.

Do you ever feel like you’re working hard to provide solutions…to the wrong problem? Are you exhausting your energy to make small gains relative to small problems, while the bigger problem is the 800 pound gorilla that no one is acknowledging

Instead of slums of found objects, what if a simple recycled plastic solution could elevate the health and safety of the worlds large population of people “making a home” where they can? http://inhabitat.com/portable-and-modular-prefabricated-

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This is a question that I’ve had to wrestle with in my role of leading communications at The Sanctuary over the years. I see many churches struggling with creating an integrated ministry environment, because the communication department is sitting o

DREAMING of trying to move on to orbital, and then, DREAMING about maybe having hotels in space one day, DREAMING about maybe one day having intercontinental flights…and if you don’t dream, you don’t achieve anything, so from our DREAMS

Jim Lepage is an artist and graphic designer just across the river from me working at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, MN (Hey, I used to be a volunteer graphic designer there before Sanctuary). Recently, he’s embarked on a quest called Word. Word

Follow the progress of the design and remodelling of our house in East London