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The News 03.23.10

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A compilation of design-related web finds.

The exhibition China Design Now at the Portland Art Museum transformed the city and demonstrated the four Cs of relevant museum experiences: Content, Conversation, Curation, and Continuation | I’m spending some quality time in the New York Times Museums Special Section | D-Shape printer uses sand and magnesium-based glue to print 3D rock sculptures ... potentially entire buildings ... potentially on the moon | The Curno Public Library in Italy is a “monolith of concrete pigmented with iron oxides, completely decorated with a bas-relief engraved with the letters of the alphabet.” Beautiful | Frank Gehry uses plywood in some funky ways for the Signature Theater Company in NY | Photos from Shanghai as it prepares for the 2010 World Expo — amazing creativity.

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Post updated in January 2021 with minor text edits. Broken link has been replaced with archived URL, courtesy of archive.org. This post was originally published at theexhibitdesigner.com on 23 March 2010.

The News 02.23.10

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A compilation of design-related web finds.

The Center for the Future of Museums on gestural interfaces and 3-D printers | At the end of the month, the exhibition Design for the Other 90%, from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, will be closing at the Mercy Corps Action Center in Portland, Oregon. The exhibition will reopen in April at the National Geographic Museum in DC | In New York? Check out the art exhibition, Size DOES Matter, curated by Shaquille O’Neal. “This is art, people. This right here is art.” (Were you able to see Big! at the National Archives in DC before it closed? A small, deliberate, interesting exhibition … that also included a shoe belonging to Shaq. Here’s the review from the New York Times) | Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait by Chris Jordan (originally via The Age of Impossible Numbers, a slideshow from Seed Magazine) | We Remember the Frankfurt Victims of the Shoa the Jewish Museum Frankfurt.

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Post updated in January 2021 with text edits. Broken links have been fixed, replaced, or replaced with archived URLs, courtesy of archive.org. This post was originally published at theexhibitdesigner.com on 23 February 2010.