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Designing the Future

News typically doesn’t get blended in with art. Nor does the information in a lot of paintings, sculptures or other forms of art usually incorporate statistical or cerebral information. But an innovative new exhibit on display at ...READ»

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World-Renowned Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, all in one...and lucky Tucson homeowners and their guests can enjoy the plethora of exhibits that realistically re-create the ...READ»

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Amenities Abound in Phoenix Art Museum

Art aficionados who own a Phoenix condo, home or other residential or commercial real estate near downtown, are in luck: the Phoenix Art Museum boasts a vast collection including more than 18,000 works spanning such artistic areas as ...READ»

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Incoming!

Fresh faces from the front lines of design.READ»

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Paola the Populist

The design universe revolves around a woman who loves Q-tips, Post-its, and The Twilight Zone.READ»

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Tucson is Home to Air & Space History

There are a number of reasons that all across the City of Tucson homes, land and real estate, including the outlying foothills, are so eagerly sought after by families, individuals and those enjoying an active, high-end retirement ...READ»

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What's In a Name -- Often Your Brand's Identity

An organization's name, logo, brand... their image, directly impacts peoples perception about it and how their products and services are valued. The same is true for museums.READ»

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The Real Election: This year’s Coolest Design

Sick of the presidential campaigns already? Here’s an election worth tuning in for: the Cooper Hewitt’s annual People’s Design Award competition.READ»

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Piles Versus Files

Any way you stack it, some work is meant to be left out in the open.READ»

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Introducing Guest Blogger Ellen Lupton: Welcoming Design Into Our Daily Lives

When I'm taking a weekend away from work, the last things I usually want to grab for reading materials are the design books sent to me from publishers that march like a Great Wall of Nice Typefaces across my desk. But there was ...READ»

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Four Ways to Keep the Museum Experience Relevant

Can a museum change the way a city sees itself? A recent exhibition in Portland, Oregon made a case for how museums can continue to engage and energize their audiences.READ»

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IDEO Cofounder to Make Cooper-Hewitt the Design-Authority

Few people have résumés like Bill Moggridge. Soon, no one will. The 66-year-old Ideo cofounder is taking over directorial duties at the Smithsonian-backed Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. His goal: turn the space into a ...READ»

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Masters of Design: A Jury of Their Peers

Introducing 11 jurors -- top leaders from universities, cultural institutions, and business -- who helped us select our 20 Masters of Design.READ»

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Royal Honors for Starchitect I.M. Pei

Cheeky modernist I.M. Pei adds to his list of accolades with Britain's top architecture prize, the Royal Gold Medal. READ»

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Seattle Reboots Its Future

The leaders of the city that Bill Boeing and Bill Gates built are asking what it will take to thrive in the 21st century.READ»

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Cooper-Hewitt Names Laptop Inventor and IDEO founder as Chief

A grand-daddy of interaction design will lead the National Design Museum.READ»

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Stone-Age Animation in a Digital World: William Kentridge at MoMA

We're dazzled by digital animation in Up and Avatar, but William Kentridge delivers as much visual wizardry with a chunk of charcoal.READ»

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Join Us for the Boston Fast Cities Breakfast!

Want to see how an innovative city of the future is created? Join us for our Fast Cities panel on June 29 at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. A variety of speakers, including Fast Company's own Jeff Chu, William McAvoy, Director of ...READ»

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Museums in Hyderabad acts as one stop source to explore life style and culture of different dynasties

Museums in Hyderabad are considered as centre of attraction for tourism that attracts more tourists to the capital city.READ»

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Museums with a Mission

What's the purpose of a museum? The old answer: to house and to display dead stuff -- the museum as mausoleum. The new answer: according to designer Ralph Appelbaum, to experience life and learning. He creates museums with a mission.READ»

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Tuck and Cover

This contraption will keep your desk clutter- and cord-freeREAD»

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New MOCA Director Deitch Will Close His Gallery But That Doesn't Quiet Angry Art Mobs

Jeffrey Deitch will close his gallery before he begins work as MOCA's new director on June 1. That's no consolation to critics who think it's a dangerous choice for the museum--and art.READ»

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Tom Vecchione - Fast 50 2002

49. Build a Brighter FutureREAD»

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Free Advice

I was just wandering around the blogosphere, looking for good design-related blogs (nominate your favorites here), and found this collection of advice from designers, collected by Ellen Lupton, the curator of contemporary design at ...READ»

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An Unlikely Story

Boston's Gardner Museum, where not a frame has budged since 1924, is spinning out hot new podcasts.READ»