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HAITI: Design Aid

Maxine — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:10:42 +0000

Thanks to designer Lena Corw in for links to designers/shops donating to Haiti relief. Please let us know if you hear of additional shops/companies that are putting proceeds to this effort.

gallery hanahou
20% of sales from the upcoming 20/10 vision show will be donated.
(i have a print in this show, along with some of my favorite designers)
611 Broadway #730 New York, NY
jan 21st – feb 19th

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health ceramics
january 15-17: heath will donate 25% of sales from their sausalito, LA & online stores to architecture for humanity’s earthquake reconstruction efforts in haiti.

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claudia pearson
25% of sales from her two new valentine prints will be donated to yele haiti.

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HERO: KARIM RASHID

Maxine — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:39:02 +0000

It’s the little things–like radiators. Karim Rashid can get excited and incensed about poor radiator design, and we’re grateful. It doesn’t hurt to push your agenda while wearing a uniform of all white or pink clothing for 10+ years. The New York Times ran a great interview on this design star on February 19. You can read it here.

[photo credit: Rob Bennett for the New York Times]

HERO: Eileen Gray

Maxine — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:19:20 +0000

Eileen Gray entered the design world with lacquer—literally. Born in 1878 in southeastern Ireland, Gray wandered into a lacquer repair shop in London, in 1905. By 1921, she had opened her own store in France. She became known for her lacquer work, and was popularly linked to the De Stijl movement as well.Her portrait [above] was taken by Bernice Abbott, in 1926, which was, itself, an accomplishment.

Furniture:

More information can be found on various sites, including this one.

Architecture:

[top: Gray's own house, in southern France ; bottom: storage cupboards are built into ceiling recess]

photos courtesy of www.tangle.com and bonluxat.com

HERO: Humanitarian Design

Maxine — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:53:19 +0000

If I had to guess your 2008 resolutions, I’d bet they include, among others: Do Something Good for the World.Here are a few design-related inspirations, while you’re figuring out just how, specifically, you want to do that. If you’re reading this blog, then you understand what design can do–physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Below: a few organizations that have combined architecture and social policy/service.

Rural Studio : Famous school out of Auburn University, founded by “Sambo” Mockbee.
The Design Center (University of Detroit, Mercy): “We focus on the social, cultural, and political aspects of urban community design and architecture.”
Dirt Studio grew out of “a concern for marginalized communities and an obsession with urban regeneration.”