OPERATION EDEN
Brooklyn-based photographer Clayton James Cubitt documented the
devastating impact Hurricane Katrina had on his hometown of Pearlington,
La., and published stirring portraits of his local heroes on his blog.
(Some of the comments made by visitors to his blog are as powerful as the
portraits.) Since posting the collection, Operation Eden, it’s been featured
on NPR, MSN, in Rolling Stone, and has been linked to by more than 600
websites. Cubitt donated the photographs, which continue to generate
emotional responses online, to relief organizations that are now rebuilding
Pearlington (population 1,858) one house at a time.
http://operationeden.blogspot.com
THINK STUDIO
When, to the surprise of
many, Burlington, Vt., marketing
firm Kelliher Samets Volk
acquired Manhattan’s Platinum
Design, the latter’s creative
director, John Clifford,
decided it was time to become
his own boss. By showcasing
the high-end work he’s produced
for past employers including
ubiquitous branding
for Barnes & Noble and Martha
Stewart Living, his own Think Studio has landed
new business from the likes of Chronicle Books and
jazz beacon Nonesuch Records. His clever die-cut cover
and design of L.A. Lofts, written by Los Angeles Times design
editor Barbara Thornburg, will hit the shelves of
Barnes & Noble in June, as will his CD packaging for
the revived hit musical Sweeney Todd, which is bloody
good work indeed.
www.thinkstudionyc.com
CONSUMER CULTURE
Before Michael Graves and Philippe Starck, there was Raymond Loewy (1893 –1986). The industrial designer who has probably affected
the daily life of more Americans than any other in the 20th century, the legacy of Loewy lives in the traveling exhibition Raymond Loewy:
Designs for Consumer Culture. This summer, the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, located near the city’s premiere retail center,
Union Square, is hosting this charming, nostalgic show from June 9 to August 27. The exhibition highlights Loewy’s stellar ergonomicenabled
career with some of his most famous designs including the Studebaker, the Sears Coldspot refrigerator, vintage Coca-Cola bottles,
and his drawings for NASA, which produced the first interior design standards used in the Apollo and Skylab aircrafts. .
www.sfmcd.com,
www.raymondloewy.com
NATIONAL TOUR:
09/16/06–11/25/06 center for art and visual culture, catonsville, md.
12/20/06–02/28/07 price towers arts center, bartlesville, okla.
03/27/07–06/16/07 parrish art museum, southampton, n.y.
07/01/07–09/12/07 bellevue art museum, bellevue, wash.
10/04/07–03/23/08 national heritage museum, lexington, mass.
04/17/08–09/30/08 museum of the rockies, bozeman, mont.
CORRECTIONS:
1. In our March/April 2006 issue (the
STEP Design 100 Annual) on page 82 (editorial),
Octopod Studios’ winning entry,
The Cult of iPod, was missing a credit. The
client for the book was No Starch Press.
2. In the same issue of STEP, the winning
Storytellers 2005 poster by F2 Design
for RC&P Advertising shown on page 125
(posters) was printed incorrectly. Here is
the correct version of the poster.
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