Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Naked beer, sustainable cremation, 3D-printed bikinis and more in our weekly look at the web

This Week’s LAB is Sponsored by Dos Equis 1. Santiago Calatrava Currently on view at St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum, “Santiago Calatrava: The Quest for Movement” is an impressive retrospective of the Spanish architect’s life work. Complete with sketches, paintings and even sculpture, the collection is a full examination of Calatrava’s ability to take civil engineering to new levels. Read his own thoughts on the show …

Aleksandra Pollner

Porcelain fortune cookies for the smashing

In explaining how she came to collaborate with design shop Object on a collection of porcelain fortune cookies, Seattle-based designer Aleksandra Pollner points to three tenets: form, past experience and material. Certainly it’s form that caught our eye first when we happened upon her pieces at the New York Gift Fair this week. Smooth and simple, the pristine white porcelain cookies are as beautiful as …

Made in Japan

100 new design products

American architect Naomi Pollock curates a selection of 100 products that embody contemporary Japanese object design in her new book, “Made in Japan.” Her selections show what adherents of the Japanese aesthetic have known for some time—that a spoon is never just a spoon, a chair much more than just a place to sit. Introducing the book, she explains that the phrase “made in Japan” …