Saturday, April 28, 2012

Sabbatical at Thirst (3st) is drawing to a close—a final report

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A Thirst staff meeting and group portrait, starting left, clockwise: Rick Valicenti, founder and design director, John Pobojewski, Camero...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Fisher Studio Houses (1936), Chicago — Andrew Nicholas Rebori, Architect

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Andrew Rebori’s Fisher Building was inspired by the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair Moderne style and twentieth century Moderne was infl...
Monday, April 16, 2012

AIGA Chicago’s 2012 Design Thinking Series I — Rob Giampietro: designer, writer, critic, curator, and educator.

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Rob Giampietro’s fast-paced presentation at AIGA Chicago’s Design Thinking Series took place last Thursday night in the classy glass audi...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Quotations on creativity — Morton Goldsholl

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“Bad Design is Useless and a Sham.” —Morton Goldsholl The image shown above is a page spread from Rick Valicenti ’s sketchbook (photogr...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Sam Jacob and Damon Rich: designing public spaces in an era of “no do-overs”

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An interesting Graham Foundation event occurred on Thursday evening, March 29, 2012. The event was a two-person presentation titled “No...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

fresh with energy: sabbatical status at Thirst (3st) weeks 6-9

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I’m being re-energized at Thirst…. Much of my time in the last couple of weeks has been spent developing layouts for Rick Valicenti an...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Wrightian elements in the Charnley-Persky House

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Louis H. Sullivan, co-principal of the firm Adler and Sullivan, in 1891 designed the Charnley-Persky House in Chicago. At the same time,...