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After Swiss citizens voted to ban the construction of new minarets, Archinect asked for proposals that maintained the spirit of Muslim iconography while preserving the look of the Alpine landscape. "Can you design a minaret as event rather than object?" Results are here...
"In the last 10 years, designers had to dramatically change the way they worked: What other industry got to weather the dot-com crash, a real estate bubble, and the death of print?" Alissa Walker in Good. [MB]
David Levine, creator of "somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates," most notably for the New York Review of Books, dies at 83. [MB]
For a class I'm teaching, Zak Klauck is designing 100 one-minute posters, one a day for 100 days, each based on a word or phrase supplied by 100 different people. He needs more words and phrases. Please help! [MB]
"The aughts were the decade when design finally transitioned from the fetish of a certain subset of the urban elite to broad acceptance within mass consumer society." Mark Lamster weighs in on the last ten years of architecture and design. [MB]
Graphically summing up the last ten years: a witty chart by Phillip Niemeyer. [MB]
"A tsunami of changes has created daunting challenges and thrilling opportunities for designers. How have they fared?" Alice Rawsthorn sums up the decade: Trying to Be Responsible and Cutting-Edge, Too. [MB]
Los Angeles’ Metro is doing something that no transit agency in the country has ever done: it’s marketing itself like a private company, not to increase the bottom line, but to reduce traffic, clean the air, and make commuting less stressful. [MB]
In case you missed it, the largest — 26 gigapixels — picture in the world. (Thanks to James Reyman.) [MB]
Design Observer's Job Board has new jobs in Portland, Pittsburgh, Miami, Cincinnati, NYC, Zurich, Boston, SF and Beijing. Companies hiring include Sanrio, Carnegie Mellon, Landor, Steelcase Inc., New Balance, Hallmark, Creative Feed and Garmin International. Post your job today. [JSC]
British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver wins the 2010 TED Prize in large part for his efforts to combat the obesity epidemic. The $100,000 award is directed to fulfilling a wish that will change the world...
DO's Jessica Helfand and Bill Drenttel and their kids are off on a 167-day world tour. Wish Bill luck: he's quitting smoking. Godspeed, brave travelers! (The tasty site uses the Basic Maths theme for WordPress, designed by Khoi Vinh and Allan Cole.) [MB]
