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The Many Layers of Cornelia Oberlander’s Landscapes

Azure Magazine

Newspapers, journals and social media encapsulated the highlights of a remarkable life: refugee from Nazi Germany, student of Walter Gropius, employee of Louis Kahn and Dan Riley, longtime collaborator of Arthur Erickson, Moshe Safdie and Renzo Piano and Companion of the Order of Canada. Praise costs nothing and is easy to dole out.

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The State of Branding: New York (From New York Flags, to New York Brands)

Canny

Did You Know Grand Central Station Has a Whispering Gallery? But unknown to some is the whispering gallery within the domed intersection of the lower floor walkways. The area is host to galleries, museums, studios, cultural institutions, and the School of the Arts, as well as a wide range of businesses and restaurants.

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The art of the interactive storyteller

UX Collective

With interactive media, you don’t just dial me out. In many ways this is exactly the effect television, digital media and the Internet have upon us. This goes completely against the grain when it comes to interactive media and app development. Interactive media companies disappeared not because they weren’t great.

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‘Art Is Art’ Celebrates the Vast and Varied Creativity of Hundreds of Disabled Neurodiverse Artists

Colossal

All images courtesy of Chronicle Book, shared with permission Spurred by the belief that art changes lives, Florence and Elias Katz founded Creativity Explored in 1983, a San Francisco-based nonprofit studio and gallery designed for disabled neurodivergent artists.

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Emerging Photography Awards Juror Lauri Lyons Looks Back on 20 Years in the Industry

Feature Shoot

Her book Flag: An American Story was released in 2001. As part of the 7th annual awards, twelve photographers will be chosen to have their series exhibited at BBA Gallery in Berlin and Studio Galerie B&B in Paris 60 single-image winners will be part of a street exhibition in Los Angeles and New York.

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Thirty hypotheses on interface aesthetics

UX Collective

Lev Manovich in The Interface as a New Aeshetic Category argues that “the rise of new media forces us to rethink our existing aesthetic categories and to consider new ones “ (Manovich). Serpentine Galleries , [link]. 22, 2001, pp. Uniting the Tribes of Fluency to Form a Metacognitive Nation. Sage Journals , [link].

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“We Want Our Work to Endure.” An Interview with Didi and Sandi Pei

Azure Magazine

They founded their practice , formerly Pei Partnership, in 1992, two years after their father retired from a full-time practice from his office, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, where the brothers had worked since graduating from Harvard GSD, with Didi contributing to the design of the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.