Design Miami Call Out to the Americas

In response to the dearth of American design, the organizers behind the 2009 season of Design Miami are soliciting portfolios from designers throughout the region. From the Carribean to South America to Central America and North America, the project seeks portfolios of "high quality, high concept objects-for-use made through handcrafted, high-tech and/or experimental processes," as well as "from emerging, experimental architects." For your chance to …

Personas Online Data Portraits

Gleaning information from the internet and using algorithms to process it, Watching the site in action, with animated words sorting into colors, is almost as compelling as the results, making it a popular part of the "Metropath(ologies)" exhibit currently at the MIT musuem. (Zinman is a PhD student in MIT's Metropath(ologies) Through 13 September 2009 MIT Museum 265 Massachusetts Avenue Building N51 Cambridge, MA 02139 …

Longchamp ANDAM Bags

Celebrating 20 years of ANDAM (Association Nationale pour le Développement des Arts de la Mode), Longchamp tasked fashion designers Bless, Jeremy Scott and Charles Anastase (all past winners of the covered ANDAM endowment) with interpreting their Le Pliage bag. We particularly love Bless' clever take on the classic, taking the foldable design and re-engineering it so that the handle can fold inside itself and be …