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The UC Recreation Center is far from perfect (difficult to change light bulbs being the biggest problem for our tour guide, who happens to be a facility manager), but in my opinion surely much better in comparison to those around it. By Morphosis, CA & KZF Design, OH (Local)

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Warsaw Museum of Modern Art [competition entry] by BIG, Denmark

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... In defining this landscape masterplan, the characteristics for the planting schemes and public spaces include climatic, natural and urban givens and incorporate a landscape phasing strategy that follows the demolishing and building of the site area by area. The urban ecology will consist of both vertical and horizontal layers: from underground treatments, water streams, and species to (

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by Tom Dixon, UK. Sold at DWR

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Art Toy USB Flash Drives, by Mimoco, MA

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"The COTE Top Ten jury considered 10 metrics for each project:Sustainable design intent and innovationRegional/community design and connectivityLand use and site ecologyBioclimatic designLight and airWater cycleEnergy flows and energy futureMaterials and constructionLong life, loose fitCollective wisdom and feedback loops."AIArchitects. Visitor Center above by Lake Flato Architects, San Antonio,

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Wired Magazine. Via Corrie. Previously related posts.

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"Transformed architecture practice will require transformation of architecture education. With accelerating trends of sustainability, technology, and collaboration in practice, we are clearly in a time of rapid transition... " AIArchitect

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"The project offers an interesting prolongation of and analogy with the philosophy adopted during the first stage of EPFL construction : importance of itinerary, movement, interior courtyards with different surroundings, atmospheres, richness of vegetation, uniqueness and unity whilst still creating diversity... The proposed programme offers a new living space, opens up the possibility of new

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Study shows comparing to conventional buildings, green buildings have 3% higher occupancy rate, while charging 3% higher rent, with operating cost 9% lower, which creates 7.5% addtional return over 6.6% up front investment. From Business Week. View slideshow.---Bank of America Tower, when completed, will be the second tallest building in NYC, the tallest LEED Platinum building in the world, by

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R(esidence)128, Werner Sobek, Stuggart, Germany

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BoKlok by Ikea, Guardian. Via Jim Kinney

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"Hoping to make history, Santa Monica City officials unveiled what is likely the nation’s first sustainable solar-powered parking structure Tuesday. The six-story, 882-space structure at the Civic Center features photovoltaic roof panels, a storm drain water treatment system, recycled construction materials and energy efficient mechanical systems..." from Lookout News. Via TreeHugger

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"...He did it by retrofitting a piece of clear acrylic and attaching LEDs to the side, which provided the light source. To the back, he mounted an infrared camera. When Han placed his fingers on the makeshift screen, some light ricocheted straight down, just as he thought it would, and the camera captured the light image pixel for pixel. The harder he pressed, the more information the camera

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By our very own Suriano.

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Patagonia: Blueprint for green business on Fortune. Via The Cleanest Line.Also see previous post.

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F System Furniture, by Hedi Slimane. Who is Hedi Slimane? Dior Homme's chief designer. Via RE:

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The 153 meter tall tower will be located at the intersection of Scotts Road and Cairnhill Road, in close proximity to Orchard Road, Singapore’s famous shopping and lifestyle street. With 20,000m² of built floor area, the building will provide 68 high-end apartment units with panoramic views. The design strategically maneuvers within the highly regulated building environment to maximize the full

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http://www.pleatdesign.com/ Via Travis

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A 100-page manesfesto about Design, Technology, Business and Life, by John Maeda. Quick and Great Read.

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Serrenia by Foster. Via Corrie.

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Death By Architecture was founded in the mid 90's by a graduate student in Los Angeles as a repository for information on architectural competitions. It subsequently went by the wayside as the editor went to work for Morphosis. It has just recently been revamped and is better than ever, with the goal to be the preeminent source for any and all competition information. Note that the Columbus

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The revolutionary balcony Bloomframe is designed and patented by Hofman Dujardin Architects based in Amsterdam The Netherlands. The Research & Development department from Hurks geveltechniek based in Veldhoven The Netherlands turned the design concept into a spectacular functional prototype.The dynamic balcony offers a solution for compact apartments in dense urban areas. By transforming the

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He should work for architects now, or should we work for him?Frank Stella, 1999

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Duchamp, Nude descendnig the Stairs, 1912.

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By George Yu Architects. Via L.A. Times

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Via Corrie, Pallalink

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Claim to be "almost unbreakable". Via Corrie, Popgadget

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Via Mike D.

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Download the pdf's of these little guys and have fun folding...http://readymech.com/

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Czech out this newly built BP gas Station in LA. A shrine to faceted geometry, and a thumb to the nose for all the "how do you build it" naysayers!

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SCI-Arc New Website, by Hello Design, Culver City, CA

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By Aires Mateus, Lisboa, Portugal. Sines Cultural Center, Portugal.

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By Rudy Ricciotti, Bandol, France. National Choreographic Center.

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By Ross Lovegrove, London, UK, for Moroso. Via Frame

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Julian Stanczak, Concurrent Colours, 1965. Columbus Museum of Art special exhibition.

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Skewed extrusion as a form of escapism.UN Studio, Amsterdam, NL.

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The 25-meter sculpture made of trashed wood furniture looks like something out of a Japanese Anime.By Antony Gormley, London, UK. For Margate Exodus. Via Domus.

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A fairytale romp through Greg Lynn's studio at the school of Applied Arts in Vienna. Make of it what you will...http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5164209764241442617&q=lynn+studio

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http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/faa/An interesting research website which documents the flight patterns across the United States for roughly 24 hours in fast forward. Flight paths were given colors, and traced against a black background.The method for producing the work comes from an open source programming platform known as Processing, and can be found here.Several artists and architects have

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By Christian Kerez Architekt, Zurich. Via Danda.

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Photography, Tim Meier, Berlin. Via DesignKlicks.

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Floor lamp by MGX at IMM 2007, Cologne, Germany. Via MoCo Loco.

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Zaha Hadid, London. Via Frame

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OMA's Hamburg Science Center takes strangeness in architecture to another level.OMA, Rotterdam, NL. Via Eikongraphia

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Calla High Chair, by Yves Behar, Fuse Project, San Francisco

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Look more like a tree than bone, but it is the same structural principles.by Joris Laarman, Rotterdam, NL. Via Re:

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After her retrospective at Guggenheim, London's Rove Gallery has an exhibition of her tower projects. All together and modeled with clear SLA resin, and silver car paint. They look like the melted metal guy from Terminator 2. Sweet.

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If I-pod is an literal diagram translated into design, then this is an I-pod building.Toledo Museum of Art, Glass Pavilion, by SANAA.

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A deceptively 3-story building. Simple yet not so.Whopper Buidling, by Hitoshi Abe, Sentai, Japan.

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This's why Peter is a famous architect. Way to go Corrie.Absolute Tower, a winning entry by beijing-based MAD, the first Chinese firm ever to win an international architecture competition.

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Digital rendering becomes art, or vice-versa, by artist Giacomo Costa.Via Archinect on Venice Biennale

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Giant sculpture/clock that is sustainably operated with tidal-power. By Aluna.Via Inhabitat

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It is Carl Andre wood block, (barely) inhabitable too.Archifactory, Bochum, Germany

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It has lots of Smith, not enough Woods, which makes it nice.SnowShow, Lapland, Finland, 2004Thanks Karen for the link.

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Screens & Boxes in the desert.Blank Studio, Phoenix, USA

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How do they figure out to combine hand rail and guard rail and make them all invisible?OMA on Domus

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Showcasing classic designs with a classic touch.Staat, Amsterdam, NL

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Wind turbines are cool, but how about shading your full-height curtain wall?Chad Oppenheim, Miami, USA on Inhabitat

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A solid spiral wrapping a glass box, creating an interesting form and space.Curiosity, Tokyo, Japan

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It is easy to forget Australian architecture besides Glenn Murcutt.John Wardle Architects, Melbourne, Australia

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For all those lego designers who could never find the right pieces in the right color, now you can digitally model your design, customize your box and have your own set shipped to you! (instructions included) You can even post your creation so that others can purchase it. Forget the 3d printer- Anyone want to make Republic Square out of legos?http://factory.lego.com/gallery/

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Jump Studio has designed a few Denari-like interior in London, but the Red Bull’s London HQ comes with a built-in slide between floors as a way to “manifest an adrenalin and dynamic excitement", and simply encourage movement by its occupants. True to the brand indeed.

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I am always depressed by “eyesores” beside freeway (like Riverside: great hospital, horrible building, drives me crazy) Can you imagine driving on the freeway and see this acoustical barrier merged with an auto dealership? Designed by Oosterhuis in NL for Hessing in Utrecht.

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I was very much intrigued by this image when I first saw it. What is it doing on an architecture website? It is an interesting project that combines SANAA’s diagrammatic approach and H&dM’s building-skin-equals-architecture strategy. A fun website too: Mansilla+Tuñón, Spain.

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Padlab, L.A. Link by Karen.

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Frontdesign. Link by Corrie.

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A strange (but probably marketing oriented) feature of this year’s Denmark pavilion at Biennial in Venice. It is a partnership between 4 Danish design firms with 4 Chinese universities, to tackle the urban and environmental challenges ahead of China’s growth.Read more on Designboom.

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What a simple and beautiful way to brand Lego: the power of imagination.

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What can we learn from the Institute of Design at Stanford?

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Courtesy (link) of Corrie for this new Sony’s ad.

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Forget the cheese factor of BoMA = MoMA, I went to this new club on Saturday night and it is by far the coolest place in Columbus. The spaces are amazing, the bar has section on section with multiple 2 story spaces. The bars are stocked on the high end and the music is chill. Much to my surprise the art is GOOD. I thought it would be cheese city. This place is also for adults, the ambiance and

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http://gooodles.com/Home.htmlFrom the makers of Shoku and Typhoon comes "Oodles".... menu looks interesting. I plan to check it out soon but given it's proximity to 670 it seems like a place us NBBJers could frequent.

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Tom Dixon’s first piece of architecture, the Tokyo Hipsters’ Club, is a big deal in industrial design world. The legendary self-educated/trained British industrial designer who just won the prestigious Designer of the Year Award by Design Museum in London, is excited to venture into architecture. His comment on architecture is quite revealing, he said recently in an interview with magazine Pol

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Thailand design firm, Trimode Studio, designed this perforated chair called “Koop” somewhat Asian, yet highly architectural (and probably not very comfortable).

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Can we turn leaves into architecture? Why? Because we can?Giles Revell is a British photographer interested in manipulating images through camera (and Photoshop).

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If you don’t want to trash your spam, you can turn it into architecture. Alex Dragulescu from Romania created a program that turns spam into 3-dimensional models. While these are not “livable” architecture, you can at least sell them as images.

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Proving bigger doesn't necessarily mean better, this homeowner maintains a website documenting his new Neil Denari home addition, as well as his thoughts regarding how the house plays to his family's needs. He even has an interview from KCRW, downloadable as a podcast. Lots of steel.http://www.thehappynewhouse.com/

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Denari is more known for his “continuous” surface, which now becomes so ubiquitous. This time, sponsored by Bartco Lighting, he created an object that is more minimalist sculpture/structure than space. I am not sure if there is any reference to Dan Flavin’s work. But the idea of taking what we used to see in grocery stores and big box retail, the standard fluorescent tubes and make them into such

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Norway-born digital/video artist Niko Stumpo has done some amazing abstract “thing” (because I don’t really know how to name it). Its floral quality reminds me of the Art Nouveau aesthetics… Here is an interview with him on Youworkforthem.

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Sixteen architects from all over the world, brought together by artist, designer and curator Ai Wei Wei, have built a micro-city of pavilions scattered along the banks of the river Yiwu, south of Shanghai.See photos here

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Hard to believe, but these images aren't photoshopped. They are actually original photographs from Angus Brown, an artist featured previously in Wired Magazine. They are taken through a process called synchroballistic photography. In it, the subject and photographer are moving in the same direction at a similar speed, thus the subject becomes slightly warped and the background becomes

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http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/

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Tokujin Yoshioka was born in saga prefecture, japan in 1967. He studied design under shiro kuramata (1987-1988) and issey miyake (1988-1992) and went free-lance in 1992. He established the tokujin yoshioka design office in 2000. His works include shop design for issey miyake,space design for nissan, bmw, shiseido. He planned exhibitions for issey miyake, hermes, muji and peugeot. His product

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For some reason, twisted tower is becoming very popular in architecture in recent years, from SOM’s early version of the Freedom Tower, to Calatrava’s Melmö in Sweden. H&dM’s new Roche Tower in Basel takes an asymmetrical approach which is quite interesting.

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How to deal with existing historical structure is often a tough task for the “modernists”. This is an exception. SeARCH is one of the Dutch firms feature in Taschen’s new Architecture in the Netherlands.

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One of the 10 finalist entries to the master-planning competition in Singapore called “Garden by the Bay” by Ah’be Landscape Architects and George Yu Architects, it is another way to merge landscape and architecture called “manifold”.George Yu was my thesis advisor.

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For those who doesn’t get AIA weekly e-newsletter, this is an interesting short feature on Thom Mayne, who, for some reason, becomes the “face” of the AIA, talks about the responsibility of architect, not as professional, but as citizen and human being… In short, no matter what we do, it is a result of what we believe in. So what do we believe in? Transformational design? Change design?

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I have to say the new lines of Samonite are quite nice (and expensive too). The one designed by Newson is very much along the design when he did the 021C concept car for Ford, not so much of my favorite Felt Chair. More on Newson, see Design Museum UK’s designers profile.

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Museo Nacional de Arte Reina SofiaUn espacio para todos.Come, see some of the finer things Madrid has to offer.

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The late chainsaw wielding artist, Gordon Matta-Clark, has been referred to as an "anarchitect" because he literally deconstructed abandoned buildings in the act of creating his art. His work was fundamentally difficult to document, and as a result his total body of work is composed of fragments. Fragments of buildings, strips of film, montages of photographs, and scraps of paper were all on view

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Cai Guo Qiang, one of the well known Chinese artists outside China. He has done a lot of installation and performance art all over the world about some kind of abstract symbolism. I found this “Borrowing Your Enemy’s Arrows” very interesting. It is the famous “Battle of Red Cliff (Chi Bi)” during the Three Kingdoms (San-Guo) period in Chinese history, where a weaker army was able to defeat the

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Talking about being iconic and humorous... BIG from Copenhagen is more Dutch than, say, Neutelings-Riedijk.

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Green roof has become so popular that people are talking about the “next” green roof. How about a mere 2 inch thick, come in 500mm2 tiles, and you only have to mow once a year? Maybe we should think about putting them in the backyard than on the roof.

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TouchMe is an interactive installation by Blendid that allows its users to create and contribute a personal image to the otherwise impersonal public space. Images that are created by interacting with a plate of frosted glass, remain a part of the piece and are displayed when no interactions occur for a given time. It asks us the question: how should we design public space with consideration of

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http://www.dutchtub.com/

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Not too much to explain here other than to say two guys have made an excellent graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report. It's being released serially and can be found here. Wouldn't it be great if all government documents got the graphic treatment? I'm sure someone is already working on the Clinton/Lewinsky hearings.

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(India-born, UK sculptist) Anish Kapoor, (mostly known in the U.S. by “Cloud Gate” in Chicago’s Millennium Park opened last year) is planning to install yet another huge public art in NYC. This time in front of Rockefeller Center, the piece titled “Sky Mirror” (first installed in Nottingham Playhouse, UK in a smaller scale) is a 3-story high, contact-lens-like stainless steel, highly reflective

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Humorous illustration from Germany’s AK3D. They should work for Pixar…

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About Mike’s comment about A&F selling lifestyle last week, this would be a interesting and contrasting point of view from a “feminist” branding and marketing professional. Some people call it selling lifestyle, others call it selling sex. Can lifestyle be sex and vice versa? Architecture and design being “sexy” is increasingly a consideration if not priority to (some of) the profession.

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