At long last, the Mathematica Timeline that Charles and Ray designed is back in the hands of teachers. It launched as an iPad app today. It is a simple App, but it is a great presentation of the beautiful graphic, intellectual and teaching object it that it is.
To invite Designer Jessica Hische, the members of the Society of Design, made this invite–which required changing their license plates in the ways you see below: you can see the process here (She said yes!):
Part of a series of vignettes on designers and visual artists by artist Andrew Bordwin. This is with architect/designer Jim Biber. I like his take on the lock–and the physicality (or do I mean the reality?) of a designed building.