Podcast – The Modernist Society with Blake Schwarzenbach (0)
4/18/10 •
We have finally let the recording of our boozy evening with Blake Schwarzenbach back in February 2009 out of the archives. Listen to Blake wax poetic about the perils of easy language, the challenges of teaching, the folly of fanboys, and yes… Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, and Thorns of Life. Keep up with future episodes [...]
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Pardon our dust… (0)
2/24/10 •
We finally decided to join the 90s and convert our old site to this newfangled “weblogging” technology all the kids are talking about. Over the next month, we’ll be slowly migrating all of the old content to this new WordPress site, and adding the backlog of The Modernist Society Podcasts we’ve been promising along with [...]
Furniture and Naked People #5 – Henrik Purienne (2)
2/23/10 •
Furniture and Naked People is an ongoing project in which we ask our favorite photographers to pair naked people with icons of modern design. Our fifth installment comes to us courtesy of South African photographer and filmmaker, Henrik Purienne. Productivity skyrockets when employees are seated comfortably in a Vertebra office chair, designed by Emilio Ambasz [...]
The Modernist Society with Kid Congo Powers (1)
9/15/09 •
Join us for another installment of your favorite salon, The Modernist Society. This time we’ll sit down with local-legend Kid Congo Powers, who in addition to his own solo work (see the recently released “Dracula Boots”), has played with The Cramps, Nick Cave, and the Gun Club. An interview and audience Q&A will be followed [...]
Alexander Girard (539)
7/07/09 •
A brief look at one of this century’s most underrated designers. By Jason Mojica In 1965 when airline industry hot-shot Harding Lawrence resigned from Continental Airlines to kick-start the Texas-based Braniff International, he knew he needed to make dramatic changes. Lawrence called upon advertising maven, Mary Wells. “Listen, Mary, I need a very big idea [...]
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