This Wayne Curtis article on post-Katrina architecture in New Orleans is fascinating. Essentially, it discusses a number of groups’ efforts to provide affordable yet well-designed, hurricane-safe, and energy-efficient houses. It covers a number of issues that pique my interest, and I suspect that if you ever find yourself discussing urban issues, affordability in cities, or … Continue reading
Category Archives: Design
Me @ Volume 1- A Quick Technical Note for the Weekend
- Afternoon Bites: Stephen Fry, Geoff Dyer on criticism, the Month of Letters challenge, and more
- The Week In Reviews: Jay-Z at Carnegie Hall, the journalism of Charles Dickens, Edward St Aubyn’s prose, and more
- Afternoon Bites: Hanksy Speaks! Chabon on comics! Straub on Walhberg! and more.
- Coming Soon to a Lower East Side Near You*
Following this look at the apartment of my friends Anna & Alex, design*sponge has again delved into the living space of folks of whom I’m fond — in this case, the recently renovated kitchen of my friends Bill and Maria. (Maria also maintains the interior design blog Vintage Simple, which comes recommended.)
March 18, 2009, Author: , 2 Comments
Tags:: Cleveland, Detroit, New York Times, urban planning
notes on inexpensive homes in industrial cities
Categories: Culture, DesignTags:: Cleveland, Detroit, New York Times, urban planning
Two NY Times pieces, each of which offers a different take on shifts within Rust Belt cities in recent years. I read this Alex Kotlowitz piece on condemned buildings in Cleveland earlier in the month and was devastated by the picture it painted — one of confused institutions and urban collapse, in which abandoned neighborhoods … Continue reading
I’ve been reading a good amount of coverage of the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference lately, and am looking forward to more recaps and reactions in the days to come. Edward Champion’s detailed and skeptical dispatches from the conference represent some of the best I’ve seen.
February 4, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Books, Jan Elizabeth Watson, Simon Reynolds, Tin House, Warren Ellis, zines
Links: 02.04.2009
Categories: Books, Culture, Design, MusicTags:: Books, Jan Elizabeth Watson, Simon Reynolds, Tin House, Warren Ellis, zines
One: Asta In the Wings author Jan Elizabeth Watson assembles a playlist for Largehearted Boy. Two: Simon Reynolds on zines. [via Warren Ellis] Three: John Siracusa on digital publishing. [via The Book Oven] This last one merits some qualification, as I don’t agree with all of Siracusa’s conclusions or his central metaphor. (There was a … Continue reading
February 2, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Design, friends
in which the apartment in which friends of mine reside is made visible on the internet
Categories: DesignTags:: Design, friends
My friends Alex and Anna are some of the finest people I know. This kind of transcends aesthetics but, nonetheless, theirs are pretty spot-on. And one can now see the place in which they live on Design*Sponge. (They have a very comfortable couch.)
February 1, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: papernet, technology, Warren Ellis
In which Warren Ellis discusses the papernet
Categories: Books, DesignTags:: papernet, technology, Warren Ellis
Following up on my post on PaperCamp, which in turn referenced some of Ellis’s earlier posts on the subject: Warren Ellis further discusses the concept. And it’s — as you might expect, from someone familiar with both printed and online ways to tell stories and spread information — an intelligent look at multiple sides of … Continue reading
January 23, 2009, Author: , Leave a comment
Tags:: Blake Butler, Design, featherproof, publishing, zach plague
reading on reading: blake butler on design
Categories: Books, DesignTags:: Blake Butler, Design, featherproof, publishing, zach plague
Over at his blog, Blake Butler has a fine post up on the cover design process for his forthcoming novel Scorch Atlas. From said post: Zach from Featherproof and Bleached Whale Design asked me if I had an idea of what I wanted the book to look like, and I said something like one of … Continue reading