required reading

Saturday morning, Boston welcomed back one of our own, Decor8‘s Holly Becker! Holly came to Boston from her home with her husband in Germany in support the launch of her first book, Decorate: 1,000 Design Ideas for Every Room in Your Home. The event  started with Holly giving a how-to all about mood boards. I [...]

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Harvard GSD and ACTAR have recently released GSD Platform 2 (Amazon affiliate link), “a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during the 2008-2009 academic year.” Organized thematically, the publication identifies underlying congruencies among studio work, theses, research, lectures, conferences, and writings to unfold [...]

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I want to thank STUFF Magazine and Erin Gates of Elements of Style for including me in their recent article, “Designing By the Book.” For the article, Erin reached out to local design personalities to find what their favorite design books are. For good measure, she had us each send two favorites.

What was my favorite? Click through to find out.

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…but it’s for a good reason! When I should have been writing about the great designers I’m coming across, I’ve been working with Joyce — not just a blogger but also a freelance photographer and graphic designer — on designing and programming a new DesignBoston.org. The basic layout is all set, but there’s still much [...]

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Recently, interior designer Charise Glasson shared her favorite design maganzines. All over the internet, people have been talking about what changes need to be made to save magazines. What content needs to change? Will advertisers come back to magazines? Will readers? Will they all go online? Even Elle Decor‘s Margaret Russell discussed this in last [...]

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