The night after the election our Post-It murals were revealed. We invited the audience to write notes of regret, congratulations, or suggestions to the candidates. Some people didn't "see" the images and so some of the notes are kind of funny and unrelated to the election, but fun none the less.
Not so secret. Mail those ballots, people!
Seriously?! We're still there, eh?
The MoMA Design Store already brings good design to the masses through its physical and online stores, along with wholesale agreements with design and gift boutiques throughout the country. Now they're going for the kill with a partnership with Home Shopping Network, aka HSN, aka that channel you've programmed your TV to skip. That's what we want, right? Good design for the masses? Right next to the air purifiers.
Bruce Nussbaum thinks so, and I agree with him. Using a recent example from Britain's solution to the money crunch, Naussbaum points out that only new ideas will get any of us above water. There are no historical answers to our current financial crisis. It's similar to how the US has approached combat in Iraq. I remember hearing one of General Patraeus' first descriptions of the situation in Iraq as he took over as commander in 2007. He described the theater of engagement as if we were fighting the Germans in WWII, with definable boundaries, enemies, and goals. Without first aknowledging in both speech and practice the need for innovative approaches to fighting a war against an unknowable, uncountable enemy in undefined boundaries of engagement we can't even think about what reasonable solutions might be.
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Look how quickly automakers are able to adapt to changing consumer demands. Wait - doesn't it take several years to develop a new production line? So if our most recent oil crisis just came and went in only 6 months, how did the automakers know to bring back the micros?
Aw, shucks I don't care! They're just so damn cute! There could be a Hello Kitty Edition of each one. But I'll take the 2009 Honda Fit, please. The JDM version with the panoramic roof that the US doesn't get.
"Show2008, a biennial exhibit, displays over 50 examples of unusual and stimulating furniture design and provides designers with a place for peer and public recognition and dialogue. Show2008 takes place at Portland State University's Shattuck Hall through October 2008 and is presented by fix."
I still haven't had a chance to visit the show since it opened on First Thursday when I was otherwise occupied, but it's also open at very awkward hours. I've been to Shattuck Hall at PSU twice in the last week and the show wasn't open either of those times. Seems like it would've been a good thing to have it open prior to Andrea Zittel's lecture when 300+ people were wandering through?
The show is located at PSU and open through the month of October
M + W + F 1 - 5pm
Portland State University
Shattuck Hall
1914 SW Park (at Broadway and Hall)
Special Designer Q&A Panel
Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 6:30pm
Design Within Reach
1200 NW Everett
I got one of those J.D. Power and Associates quality surveys in the mail accompanied by a single dollar bill. I guess that's what my time is worth these days. The survey is for a car I sold two years ago that probably had the worst initial quality of any new car I've ever owned (although what could you expect, it was a Volkswagen). I can't imagine that I'd have many positive things to say about it were I still driving it today.
Of its many faults, I'd have to say the most memorable was when the front driver's side hub bolt came loose on the 80 in Richmond, California. Yes, beautiful Richmond. Just where you'd want to break down in your new yuppy GTI-mobile. With people whipping by at 90mph to boot. Luckily, my husband was able to make it to a nearby truck shop that had a socket wrench large enough to fit a hub bolt. After waiting 2 weeks to get the replacement part - from Germany, natch - we promptly got rid of that thing.
But really this post is about the ridiculousness of trying to pursuade someone to complete your survey by giving them one whole dollar. Does this work on anyone?
I'm excited to see the newly renovated Saarinen TWA terminal at JFK that will become the portal to JetBlue's terminal 5. And now to learn that Muji is opening a "Muji to GO" outpost in the terminal. Sweet. If only that $700B bailout would kick in and I could get some more client work in NYC...
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