Julia Hoffman, MoMA New York's new creative director

July 21, 2008. New York’s Museum of Modern Art recently announced the appointment of Julia Hoffmann as Creative Director of Advertising and Graphic Design. Hoffmann has already begun to alter the look and feel of the museum's advertising and graphic design projects...

Current New School students build an urban diagram

July 21, 2008. New York’s The New School recently announced the launch in fall 2009 of a new undergraduate degree program in environmental studies. Using New York City as their laboratory, students will take a variety of classes at both Parsons The New School for Design, and liberal arts school, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts...

Voussoir Cloud by IwamotoScott with Buro Happold

July 20, 2008. On August 1 the SCI-Arc Gallery will open Voussoir Cloud, a site-specific architectural installation by San Francisco-based studio IwamotoScott who worked engineering firm Buro Happold (and SCI-Arc students) to design and build a compressed vault system using a featherweight sheet material...

From Antoine Peters' fall/winter 2008-2009 collection
 
July 14, 2008.  Antoine Peters will present his S/S 2009 collection on July 26, during Amsterdam Fashion Week at the AIFW in the Westergasterrein. Typical for the young designer, its title – “To Make an Elephant out of a Mosquito” – places the emphasis on scale, proportions -– and dry wit. He talks about his current and upcoming collections ...

Permanent exhibition in the new Harley-Davidson Museum

July 9, 2008. This weekend will mark the opening of the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee designed by Pentagram’s James Biber with a permanent exhibition created by Abbott Miller, also of Pentagram, and coinciding with the 105th anniversary of the iconic Midwestern company. Miller’s site-specific exhibition was designed simultaneously with the architecture and fits seamlessly into the building, showcasing the bikes as if they were art. Miller, who built his extraordinary career as a 2D designer, explains how he approached the 3D design of the show without an existing building.... 

Grand Hornu Images shows Martí Guixé's fire-based work

June 27, 2008. Until October 5, the Grand Hornu Images gallery in Grand Hornu, Belgium will exhibit the Park Life designs of Spaniard Martí Guixé, all based around fire, in a show called Open-End. Guixé explains how the fiery Park Life objects "reconsider everyday life as a luxury leisure sport ... Photography Inga Knölke/Imagekontainer

GSM as Terrorist concept by Laury van Eerd.

June 25, 2008. On June 20, Onamatopee Press and Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands published a book called Jurkjes & Jason, examining local, and student, perceptions of terror and terrorism today...

Richard Sennett, a sociologist at New York University and the London School of Economics, builds the case for craft as not merely productive but also engrossing and ennobling.

May 7, 2008. I.D. interviews Ben Wittner and Sascha Thomas about their book Arabesque, out now from German publisher Die Gestalten Verlag. "Openness to experimentation with script is what makes Arabic and also Persian design so special, and it's also what made us fall in love with it." ...

April 30, 2008. I.D. interviews Lisa Mahar, owner of the New York toy and furniture store Kid O, about her new house line of toys debuting in July: "The illustrations have incredible quality and workmanship, they convey my respect for children’s ability to understand the subtleties of the world," she says ...