currency designs for New York City neighborhoods by SVA students
(above concept & design for a Chelsea Market currency by Eric St. Onge)

redesignrelated:

Brand New on the refreshed logo for The New York Public Library: a look at “An Iconic Lion for an Iconic Institution” (via Brand New)

“Inside the (new) Herb Lubalin Study Center”
(via Creative Review)

“People in glass apartments shouldn’t throw stones or other projectiles. Nor should they engage in private acts directly in front of their floor to ceiling windows. Yet lately there has been a rash of exhibitionism throughout New York City owing to an increase in floor to ceiling windowed buildings. Influenced in part by Richard Meier’s glass box towers in lower Manhattan (and his newest one at One Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn), these transparent living spaces, once the quintessence of twenty first century Modernism, have become eyesores, particularly at night when they take on the appearance of showrooms in Amsterdam’s red light district…”  —Steven Heller’s critique on “People in Glass Apartments” via Design Observer, info for above photo: 445 Lafayette Place, designed by Charles Gwathmey

No Third Terms: Mr. Burns for Mayor propaganda posters by Art in Odd Places.

insight, photos, humor, quotes, and video clips from
The Night of the Italians: Presented by The Type Directors Club,
moderated by Paola Antonelli with Louise Fili, Francesco Cavalli,
Massimo Vignelli, and Matteo Bologna

(via Henry Sene Yee, and some more photos via flickr)

The House Industries opening at TDC NY will also include the opportunity to purchase one of two new limited edition Serigraphs.

poster for Lubalin Now exhibition at Cooper Union
(via AisleOne)

Yee-Haw Industries Exhibit in Chelsea Market

Where the Wild Things Are: Original Drawings by Maurice Sendak
at The Morgan Library

“What Are You Reading on the Subway? Our Readers Respond” (via NYTimes.com)

loveallthis:

This loft is insanely smart and gorgeous.

Architect Kyu Sung Woo renovated his son Wonbo’s Union Square loft taking advantage of natural light and the 12 feet of vertical space — he stacked a minimal loft sleeping platform above the compact kitchen.

from Apartment Therapy NY.

“Longtime curators and local artists Jordin Isip and Rodger Stevens know a lot of other local artists — they recruited 300 of them (many with day jobs: graphic designers, illustrators, lighting designers, etc.) for Dime Bag 3, closing at Giant Robot in the East Village on August 12…”

See What 30 Local Artists Stuffed Into ‘Dime Bags’
(via Vulture, above “Dime Bag” illustrated by Ray Fenwick)

“Gawker Artists presents MOM & POPism, an exhibition curated by Billi Kid reinterpreting James and Karla Murray’s latest book, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, in unique collaboration with many of today’s hottest graffiti and street artists…”

above image: Mom & Popism / David Cooper
(discovered via jimandkarla)

a few iphone pics from the TDC 55 and TDC2 opening night @ One Club, books (via flickr)

2666 by Roberto Bolaño paperback cover and slipcase designed by Charlotte Strick