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Edited by Annie Block, Text by Mark McMenamin -- Interior Design, 2/1/2009
Careful Assessment
What makes a designer like an insurance company? They're both in the risky business of guessing what comes next. And London's Design Museum accepts full liability for the second annual Brit Insurance Design Awards. Nearly 100 submissions in seven areas—architecture, furniture, product, graphics, fashion, transportation, and interactive—were deemed forward-looking enough to be short-listed. >>More
Midwinter Masala
Hollywood's looking more like Bollywood. And filmmakers aren't the only ones fascinated with the Indian subcontinent—the global art and design communities can't get enough either. Sculptor Anish Kapoor is readying his first permanent New York public work, a sculpture in reflective stainless steel chosen as the cornerstone of a Herzog & de Meuron apartment tower. >>More
For centuries, artists have exalted the human form, glorified its angles and curves, and even scrutinized its many exterior shortcomings. In an exhibition titled “Dust in the Brain Attic,” artist Dustin Yellin re-examines the body as art and presents it in a new context: an internal perspective. >>More
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