Industrial designer Joey Ruiter is trying to blur -- no, obliterate -- the line separating art and design. “I don’t think there’s too much difference,” says the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based designer on why he entered one of the world's most lucrative open art competitions, Art Prize, with a sleek, minimalist city bike.
Cavemen asked it amongst the tribe; ancient scholars dedicated thousands of pages to the subject; and every other commercial you see is still trying to resolve the age old question: Is it proper for us to get down and dirty? Can we date, and still have it be cool according to social convention?
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Pentagram unveiled a fresh logo for the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art recently, and it has that elusive quality brand designers are always trying to capture: movement. We mean that literally.
The Swiss architecture firm Group8 has managed to marry two of the biggest cliches in contemporary architecture -- shipping containers and stark white offices -- to produce something entirely unique.
We searched high and low, across millions of miles of virtual space; we worried that we'd never succeed. But we found him: The architect of the best infographic explanation of Inception, the summer's most complicated film.
A refresher, for those who are still new: A scant two weeks ago, we began a contest asking readers to create an infographic explaining Inception. The movie needed it, given how complex it was.
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