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designslinger

http://www.designslinger.com/

art, architecture, design & history - exploring the convergence

Added on: Feb 18th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Recent Posts

Thanksgiving

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 02:45 in ephemera

[Turkey Baster, Lee Kay, Halsted Street window display, November 23, 2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]Turkey day. [Window sign, Broadway, Chicago /Image & Artwork: designslinger]...
designslinger: Word of the Week

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 02:11 in dictionary

[Cullom Street, Chicago, November 12, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]festoon (fe-STOON) n. the representation of a garland of flowers, fruits and the likehanging from two points, heaviest at the middle and lightest at the point of su...
Nightfall

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 01:53 in Photography, ephemera, cities

[Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris (12th-14th century) Paris, April 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Yesterday it was all bright and shiny, today it's all about darkness and night. [Rue du Cloitre Notre-Dame, April 2009 /Image &...
Bright & Shiny

Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 02:30 in Photography, ephemera

[Cloud Gate (2004) Anish Kapoor; Jia Shan Shi No. 46 (2009) Zhan Wang; Millennium Park, Chicago, November 2,2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]The sun's rays have a special quality during the Fall season. Shiny objects don't seem ...
Friday Snippets 11.20.2009

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 02:15 in slinger slinks

[Hotel de Savoye, Paris, April, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Movie director Tim Burton's art on display at MoMA. [Wired]Zaha Hadid's temporary pavilion in Chicago is gone, but her new, permanent museumbuilding in Rome is ready and ...
designslinger: Word of the Week

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 02:00 in dictionary

[U.S. Post Office - Loop Station (1973) Mies van der Rohe, Chicago, September, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]fenestration (fen-uh-STREY-shuhn) n. the arrangement in a building of its windows. [South Dearborn Street wall facade...