The Road to Clarity
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Design | No Comments »How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America?s road signs, one letter at a time.Read full story
Art: Cybermural: The Web as the Wall
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Design | No Comments »An online travelogue strongly suggests a new twist on the Los Angeles muralism of the 1970s.Read full story
Architecture: A Museum to Get Lost In, and How Israel Is Fixing It
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Design | No Comments »The Israel Museum embarks on an $80 million expansion and renovation that will transform the way a visitor navigates and experiences it.Read full story
From a Burmese Prison, a Chronicle of Pain in Paint
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Design | No Comments »Htien Lin?s paintings and illustrations, smuggled from prison during his more than six years as a political prisoner, offer a rare vision of prison life in Myanmar, one of the world?s most authoritarian nations.Read full story
Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Design | No Comments »Elizabeth Murray was a New York painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high-spirited, cartoon-based language of form.Read full story
Possessed: Cloaked in Memories
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Style | No Comments »Though there are newer, warmer and even pinker coats in the world, playwright Sarah Ruhl cherishes the intangible layer of protection her memory has quilted into this one.Read full story
The Age of Dissonance: Foot-in-Mouth Disease
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Style | 2 Comments »What happens after you tell someone not to do something and she does it anyway?Read full story
Masters of the Arcade Caught in a Replay
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Style | No Comments »While most gamers seek the flashiest graphics and deepest stories, the die-hards keep flicking joysticks on decades-old machines.Read full story
Buy Low, Divorce High
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Style | No Comments »After home prices rise, unhappy couples realize they can afford to split.Read full story
Water, Water Everywhere, but Guilt by the Bottleful
Monday, August 13th, 2007 Posted in Style | No Comments »What was a healthy convenience is becoming a symbol of waste.Read full story