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ephemeral tomorrows

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) In the spring of 1939, the World’s Fair opens in New York City—at Flushing Meadows, Queens to be exact, also the site of a later Fair in 1965. The 1939 … Continue reading →

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planned obsolesence :to be unworthy we are

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) the critics all talk about how we’ve entered into the era of ‘design as commodity’ like never before. so many designers are household names that we even buy clowns like phillipe stark in big … Continue reading →