Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Yoko Ono vs. menswear, drugged-up spider designers, the year's failures and more in our look at the web this week

1. Yoko Ono for Opening Ceremony “Soooooo, this is actually, like, ‘art’ or something, isn’t it? No fucking way Yoko Ono thinks she can break up The Beatles AND ruin menswear.” Read more of Jon Moy’s appropriate reaction to Ono’s new Opening Ceremony collection over at Four Pins. 2. Javier Riera’s Outdoor Light Projections Spanish artist Javier Riera explores the relationship between nature and geometry …

Interview: Lucy Voller and Molly Martancik

The friends behind There-There talk long-distance design

Brought together by a mutual appreciation for design and exploration, Lucy Voller and Molly Martancik met in college and formed an indelible friendship that would soon birth a long distance collaborative they call There-There. With Martancik based in Boston and Voller in Minneapolis, the two send inspiration and ideas back and forth to produce their line of wood and leather jewelry and watercolor illustrations, each …

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Pratt Institute celebrates star alumni and faculty from 1887-2012

Over the past 125 years New York’s Pratt Institute has continually graduated and employed some of the world’s most influential free thinkers in art and design, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Ellsworth Kelly, George Lois, Paul Rand and Richard Meier to name just a few. While many have risen to fame, others remain behind the scenes designing products and making art we all subconsciously know and love. …