Tag: MOMA

As a part of its 'Standard Deviations; Prototypes, Archetypes, and Families in Contemporary Design' exhibit, the Museum of Modern Art has acquired something rather intangible: a collection of 23 digital fonts. From the pixelated Oakland font of the 1980s to the familiarly clean Gotham, each of these typefaces suggests that the mere appearance of a letter, notwithstanding the words it might make, ...

MoMA will soon exhibit a history of modern food prep called 'Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen.' FastCoDesign takes a look at this survey, spanning the last century of Western cookery -- from the architecture of the kitchen itself to the introduction of newer and stranger gadgets, like Chemex coffee pots and Braun's blenders, designed by the nonpareil Dieter Rams. ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Conservative Facebook users thought that a 3-year-old parody video from The Onion was real. Somehow the video -- in which a fictional Pennsylvania congressman testifies ...

Share If you take a look across the top of your keyboard, you will notice an invaluable work of design that has been recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator for the Department of Architecture and Design, decided that '@' was due for some institutional gravitas, and pitched it to MoMA's design and architecture acquisitions committee. Why ...

We've seen toys that claim to decifer dog barks (and even fancy computers that can decode the barks of a particular breed of dog better than humans can), but we still haven't seen a big glowing sign that spells out what your dog is trying to say -- until now. Okay, truth be told, you still won't, at least not at home, unless you run to New York's MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) for a demo at the ...