Colored Consumerism
8 January 2013 | The Smart Set
After the Industrial Revolution the world found something new to mass-produce: color. My review of Reggie Blaszczyk’s The Color Revolution.
Posts tagged with “Design And The City”
Living In A Box
1 October 2009 | Philadelphia City Paper
“I remember writing in my journal that I loved the idea of ‘a city dialoguing with itself,’” says photographer Marianne Bernstein, who this year curates one of Design Philadelphia’s seminal events, the Welcome House in Love Park.
Slow Moving, City Alive
7 January 2009 | Philly Skyline
Perhaps it was our perch — on the balcony of a factory being transformed into a “creative compound” — that gave me the feeling of eyeing a place left behind.
What’s Your Function?
14 October 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
One gray morning two weeks ago, Josh Owen was sitting in an intimate corner of the vast contemporary space now occupied by Philadelphia University’s industrial design program. It’s a 1950s building on the university’s East Falls campus originally designed to accustom students to working in a factory.
Too Late for the Streetscape
24 February 2008 | Philly Skyline
So we left the convenience of the 54 bus at Lillian Marrero and hoofed it to the Kensington Branch at Norris Square. But first, we stood at the top of the staircase of the neo-Classical temple and looked out across the seven lanes of Lehigh Avenue. .