Topanga, I Hardly Knew Ye- October 14, 2007 Ive always wondered why anyone with taste would pay thousands of dollars to publish one of those text-heavy, type-awful, full-page magazine advertisements void of any semblance of graphic design nuance or sophistication.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/028730.html Design Observer Party: Denver, October 12- October 11, 2007 It is now a Design Observer tradition to host the best party at the AIGA Biennal Conference. This year's event is in Denver at The Milk Bar The Shelter. Friday, October 12 from 9:00pm to 2:00am. 1037 Broadway, "South of Colfax Nightlife District."http://www.designobserver.com/archives/028065.html Rest in Peace, Herbert Muschamp- October 9, 2007 Officially published for the first time as a posthumous tribute: a loving parody of the writing of the late, great architectural critic Herbert Muschamp.http://www.designobserver.com/archives/028637.html A Plea to The New York Times: Index Your Art- October 6, 2007 Why does the art that adds so much to the texts published in The New York Times disappear Why cannot The New York Times simply index the art that it publishes, at least leaving the bibliographic tracings of the work in their newspaperhttp://www.designobserver.com/archives/028159.html Wood That We Could- October 4, 2007 Remember back in the late 1980s, when Minneapolis was a hotbed of creative energy Back when brochures were tied together with braid and twigs Minnesota was making a play for the next big thing: the North Woods look. Well, it's back...http://www.designobserver.com/archives/028198.html Stan Brakhage: Caught on Tape- October 1, 2007 For Stan Brakhage, that concentration resulted in extraordinary explorations of many things, including the life cycle of a moth, caught on adhesive strips of tape, and subsequently captured on film where it regained however briefly the magnificent illusion of mobility. For designers, faced by budgets and clients and deadlines, the luxury of so much isolation seems a distant, if not an altogether perverse paradigm. But are these intentions really so mutually exclusivehttp://www.designobserver.com/archives/028541.html |