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Artist Takashi Murakami -- the designer behind Louis Vuitton's multicolor logo bag -- unveils another colla-boration with the brand: a charmingly surreal anime short, celebrating their six-year relationship.
The Charles and Ray Eames foundation auctions off an overnight stay in the Eames studio to make up for low endowment in the downturn.
Frank Gehry skips cascading glass and wobbly towers for his most modest plan in memory: the "Modgun," a humble, mod-ular shotgun house to be built in the sixth ward of New Orleans.
Product-design trend watch: rough, amateurish sketches that evoke artisanal, handmade virtues, like on Jamie Oliver's condiment line, by Pearlfisher.
"I've LOL'd at ROFLCon, been accosted by Julia Allison, and done yoga with Russell Simmons," says Chris Dannen, listing his more memorable moments reporting for FastCompany.com. A Brooklyn-based journalist, he has covered technology for the site since 2007, delving into everything from public policy to patent law to bicycle design. His work has also appeared in Discover, Inc., and Rolling Stone.
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