* Architecture + Design: Exhibitions: “The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area” at SFMoMA

Architecture + Design: Exhibitions: “The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area” at SFMoMA: “This exhibition is the first of its kind, featuring Buckminster Fuller’s most iconic projects as well a focus on his local design legacy in the Bay Area. Though he was never a resident, Fuller’s ideas inspired many local experiments in the realms of technology, engineering and sustainability..Fuller’s imaginative works will be represented primarily with prints from the Inventions: Twelve Around One portfolio (1981), as well as several key works on loan from the R. Buckminster Fuller Archive at Stanford University. The exhibition also includes other Bay Area endeavors inspired by Fuller’s thinking, such as low-cost laptops from Yves Behar and Nicholas Negroponte’s “One Laptop per Child” initiative; the North Face’s Oval Intention, the first dome-shaped tent to best the sheet-thrown-over-a-rod design (demonstrating Fuller’s notion “tensegrity,” or tensional integrity, if you will); David de Rothschild’s Plastiki sailboat, the recycled catamaran of 12,500 plastic water bottles that sailed from San Francisco to Australia; and Stewart Brand‘s comprehensive “Whole Earth Catalog.” Through 29 July 2012; The Utopian Impulse – BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND THE BAY AREA at SFMoMA.

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image: Buckminster Fuller and Chuck Byrne, Building Construction/Geodesic Dome, United States Patent Office no. 2,682,235, from the portfolio Inventions: Twelve Around One, 1981; screen print in white ink on clear polyester film; 30 in. x 40 in. (76.2 cm x 101.6 cm); Collection SFMOMA, gift of Chuck and Elizabeth Byrne; © The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller, All Rights reserved. Published by Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati; article: Rosenfield , Karissa . “SFMoMA Exhibit: “The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area”” 06 Apr 2012. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/224032&gt;

* Design: Salone del Mobile Milan 2012: Dezeen Studio: Sunday at MOST

Design: Salone del Mobile Milan 2012: Dezeen Studio: Sunday at MOST: The final daily video installment from MOST in Milan features the British designer Tom Dixon showing the Digital Forming software he’s got on show that allows customers to customise their own bespoke Tom Dixon lamp or speaker and then purchase it online with the click of a button, and giving away, yes, for free, 400 of his lamps (and a few chairs), Piers Roberts talking about theDesignersblock exhibition in the cloisters of the museum, an overlong neo-romantic and terribly luxury-arty piece by Jules Wright on luggage (!) and, of course, a spot on a gelato university program (!!)..  Milan..

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* Design: Salone del Mobile Milan 2012: Lighting: Lamps for Booo! by Front

Design: Salone del Mobile Milan 2012: Lighting: Lamps for Booo! by Front: “..comprises only a metal base, from which bubbles are blown to grow and ultimately drop or pop away. ‘we wanted to create a constantly changing lamp that combines the most ephemeral of lampshades with an LED light source,’ explains front. ‘in the time it takes the LED to burn out, the lamp will have had 3 million different globe shades.'”  Technology and creativity offer a pendant lamp with 3 million different and unique lampshades..for the price of one..

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* Design: Salone del Mobile Milan 2012: Dezeen Studio: Wednesday at MOST

Design: Salone del Mobile Milan 2012: Dezeen Studio: Wednesday at MOST: The enthusiastic and dynamic Dezeen offers interviews with designer Tom Dixon on technology in design manufacture, the wondrous and brilliant Paola Antonelli, design curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, on hacking in design and more..

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