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We just got this life-sized mirrored skeleton from the French-based design collective Domestic, and I'm nuts for it. Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Belgian cult duo Studio Job are behind the 5-foot-5 laser-cut Perspex wall decoration. The influential pair have worked with ceramics heritage house Royal Tichelaar Makkum and fashion avant guardians Viktor & Rolf.
Also love the "I Love Me" hearts by graphic designers Ich&Kar. The pair have given their whimsical take on fashion, food, music, design and architecture--and now these laser-cut mirrors. It's a grouping of individual mirrors that can be configured in whatever pattern you desire.
Now if I can only figure out where to stick them all in our house!

The Charming Charms are the bonafide bijoux of summer--their $22-$40 price for 3, being part of the appeal. Dutch designer Tord Boontje and L.A. studio Artecnica collaborated on this brand new collection of charms, plated in 18-karat gold or sterling silver and dangling from a black cotton cord. Loop them on hoop earrings, off a metal chain or silk ribbon, or from your purse. Each group contains 3 charms, and there are 4 different groups to choose. I love all 12 together, and knot them individually on a cord so they can be seen better.

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July 25, 2009 10:04 AM  (go back to main view)
First Lady Honors Designers By Putting Them To Work
Fashion Design Recipient: Francisco Costa
On the 10th anniversary of the National Design Awards, organized by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, First Lady Michelle Obama didn't simply host a prim lunch for the recipients. Before feeding the most celebrated designers in the U.S. yesterday morning, she sent them out into the community to take part in panel discussions that could be accessed by anyone with a couple of free hours.
The eclectic panels were broadcast live on the web. We can only hope the Cooper-Hewitt will offer them sooner than later as podcasts for everyone to experience, any time. Hint, hint.
The First Lady later shared with her guests that Albert Einstein had it right when he said imagination is more important than knowledge. "We need to ensure that our children have both — knowledge and imagination. I know I want that for my girls. They deserve to have access to a good education and access to ideas and images that will spark their creativity."
Hood's Landscape at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco.
This year's award recipients are all based in New York, except for landscape architects Hood Design, whose offices are in Oakland, CA. Product design honors went to Boym Partners; interiors to Tsao & McKown Architects; architecture, SHoP Architects; interactive design, Perceptive Pixel Inc.; communication design, The New York Times graphics department; and fashion, the talented and always modern Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein women's collection (hurrah dear Francisco!).
Spark for kids by IDEO for Project Inkwell

The the corporate achievement prize went to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the lifetime achievement award to Bill Moggridge, a founder of IDEO, the fertile global design consultancy; the Design Mind award to Amory B. Lovins, a physicist and founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a Colorado nonprofit research concern; and the Design Patron Award went to Reynold Levy, president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

The First Lady's emphasis on the nuts and bolts of design was on point given the wide perception that it's just about looks and, say in the case of fashion, shopping (and I know from my legion of students and interns over the years, some who rushed for the exit when they discovered they would need to add measurements or use spell check--spell check!) "What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful: A laptop, a bridge, an outfit, a garden," she continued. "All drawn from a thousand wells of inspiration and yet grounded in the basic principles of math or science."

Photo Credits: Francisco Costa by Terry Richardson for French Vogue; Shu Uemura Lipstick courtesy of Tsao & McKown; Spark Handheld courtesy of IDEO for Project Inkwell; DeYoung landscape, Hood Designs.

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