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Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things
Test Driving the Palm Peeler
From the Archives: Gervase Markham on the Vertues of a Good Cook
Self Portrait in a Digital Camera
Keeping Time with Tim Hawkinson
Hell on a Handbag
Minding the Gap on Facebook
The Summer of Bottled Lime Juice
Camps: A Guide to 21st Century Space
The Visibility Principle
Working Father Magazine
Curiosity Shop
Dematerializing the Screened Porch
Milestone Birthdays
The Idea of Order in Your Neighbor's Garage
To Each His Own Cup Holder
Weighing in On the Kindle
The High-Functioning Workaholic
Norma Kamali Doesn't Care About Brands
The Secret Life of Scarves
Extreme Urbanism: AdbouMaliq Simone and Teddy Cruz
Everybody Does Everything
Curating the Self
Richard Sennett on The Craftsman
Deranged Self-Help
Simple birthday projects
Teaching Office Design with Malcolm Gladwell
Looks Green To Me
Hanging out on the fire escape (with Thomas van Leeuwen, Saul Bass and Greg Martin)
The Other Mother (Coraline)
D.I.Y Valentines
My Lunch with Lovink
Interobjectivity Lessons with Bruno Latour
We're Going on a Cool Hunt
Corner Office
The Dessert Service
Regifting
Arranging the Meal with Jean-Louis Flandrin
Finding My Match
Outliers (by Malcolm Gladwell)
Kurve, Kone, or Krone?
Ron Carlson Writes A Story
M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans
It's a place card! It's a menu!
Welcome to the Phatocracy
At home with Hannah Woolley
Inappropriate
Support a small press near you this season
Facebook Fictions
Close Reading: Obama
Are you a recessionista?
Countertop Oven
Oprah Nation
A Palin Halloween
Seeking Mrs. Polonius
The Vanguard Party
The Year We Walked to School
Comic Craft
Design Observance
Sarah Boone's Ironing Board
Beth Lipman, Still Lives in Glass
Next American City wins redesign award
Design is Communication. Duh.
File Tabs: The Tip of the Iceberg
Collage Professor

Apartment Therapy
Brand New
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Design for Less
Design Guy University
Design Observer
DesignMom.com
DIY Kids
Edward Bottone
ELupton.com
Hearth
I Love Typography
Murketing
Signatures
The Daily Scrapbook
The Pattern Foundry
Thinking with Shakespeare
Thinking withType
Virtualpolitik

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Design Observance

These paintings by David Schorr, faculty at The Wesleyan University, are careful observations of consumer goods cast out into a zero-gravity space. The intensity of the painting keeps them grounded.