April 14, 2012

Bauhaus: a blueprint for the future | Art and design | The Observer

Bauhausgeb ude Dessau, Walter Gropius 1925/26
Walter Gropius’s 1925 Bauhaus building in Dessau was badly damaged during the war but has now been restored. Photograph by Christian Irrgang

Bauhaus: Art as Life – in pictures

Bauhaus: Bauhausgeb ude Dessau, Walter Gropius 1925/26, S dansicht

March 8, 2012

de.Sign [Architecture | Urban Design], New York | Mumbai


de.Sign [Architecture | Urban Design], New York | Mumbai is looking for Junior Architects with Revit knowledge for our Mumbai office located in Bandra West, Mumbai, India.
Write for details : de.Sign@deDotSign.com

February 26, 2012

Pruitt-Igoe: death of an American housing dream | Art and design | The Observer

Aerial View of St. Louis Housing Project
The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in 1956. ‘Residents recall their utter joy when they moved in, not only at the plumbing but the warmth of community.' Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

February 19, 2012

September 2, 2011

Who Made That Moka Express? - NYTimes.com

Advertisement from 1961.
Courtesy of Bialetti.Advertisement from 1961.

August 25, 2011

Steve Jobs' Bold Leadership


 
The following is an excerpt from A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business, the book written by frog Founder Hartmut Esslinger in 2008. Hartmut and frog worked with Steve Jobs at Apple in the early 1980s to create the “Snow White” design language for the Apple IIc computer, and again in 1985 when Jobs briefly left Apple and started the computer company NeXT, where Hartmut and frog designed the NeXT Cube. In this passage from the book, Hartmut offers a glimpse into those tumultuous years for Apple and Jobs, and some insights into why the Apple CEO’s creative and strategic vision became so effective.

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Fuels new book tells the story of Sainsbury's packaging from the 60s and 70s ....
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