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Life of an Architect Playhouse Competition 2013

Speaking of competitions, It's on! Head over to Life of an Architect and get your pencils sharpened for this year's Playhouse Competition. It's for a great cause, it's free to enter, and you can go toe-to-toe with me, because I've

The Competition

This trailer gives a sense of what it's like to be fully engaged in an architectural competition, but at the highest level. I'm looking forward to seeing it (and the absurdity in which some of us participate). Jean Nouvel, to the documentary filmmaker: I hope you

BMW's Design Lead Talks... Design

This video makes me think about my red '73 BMW 2002 roundie that I sold a few years ago to buy an '87 911 Targa. Beyond the reminiscing, this is a very nicely done video of Karim Habib, the chief of design at BMW, telling us about his

✱ Modern Architecture in Minecraft

My son is way into Minecraft. He loves building things and that's his main motivation. We spent some time together the other day and worked on building a piece of architecture in it. We decided to build right over a waterfall and have glass floors. It's

early apple computer and tablet designs

There are some amazing stories coming out of Apple these days, and there are some beautiful early designs (as well as some turds) to see in a new book by Hartmut Esslinger, a past designer at Apple who also founded frog design. It's really interested to see that

Apple has named 'Paper' iPad App of the Year

Apple has named Paper iPad App of the Year. We’re incredibly honored (and a few of us on the team are still scraping our jaws off the floor). We’re lucky to spend our days working on something we love and believe in, and to see creators around the

✱ New Project Parti Diagram

I thought I'd share a parti diagram (this link is great by the way) for a new project I'm working on. We'll use this as a guide for future design decisions - it's basically the 'big idea'. As we start