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Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames

by Dan on December 8, 2011

This is doing the rounds today, but it’s simply too good not to post…

Ice Cube, who apparently studied architectural drafting before joining NWA, on the architecture of Los Angeles and the design of Charles and Ray Eames:

The New York Times has an interview with Ice Cube  about the video:

 I had learned about them when I was studying architectural drafting. Back then, I didn’t know I was going to make money. So being that they put together a house in two days and used discarded materials — something about their style caught on.

As I got older, I could equate it to sampling. I see that’s what we were doing, taking discarded records from the ’60s and ’70s and revamping them.

Awesome.

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In the Cube: Michael Bierut and James Biber

by Dan on November 22, 2011

In this video for Designers and Books, graphic designer and Pentagram partner Michael Bierut chats with architect James Biber about the books he selected for the site. The setting is the Rachel Whiteread-like library, or “book cube”, in Biber’s architectural office, located on the 2oth floor of Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building in downtown Manhattan:

The full, unabridged, 30-minute conversation can be seen here.

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Private Library

September 26, 2011

In this short film, New York architect Andrew Berman discusses a commission to design a beautiful writing studio in the woods in Long Island: Tweet

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Midweek Miscellany

August 10, 2011

A profile of calligrapher DeAnn Singh at The LA Times: When the producers of “Mad Men” needed a note in cursive and a signature from Don Draper, they turned to Singh. “Something masculine and from the 1950s” was the request, though they eventually decided that the missive be typed… Ask her about computers, and she’ll tell [...]

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Laurence King on the Future of Design Publishing

August 9, 2011

In a great interview for Design Observer, UK publisher Laurence King discusses the future of design publishing with Mark Lamster: Illustrated book publishers, and in particular art publishers, need bookshops to survive, especially the increasingly rare specialist ones where there are discerning buyers who understand art, architecture and design. I think that these need to be treated [...]

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