Chicago’s entry into the Oregon Manifest bike design competition was revealed on Friday night.
Tag: design
Posted inArts & Culture
‘This is the bike for Chicago’
The worst winter in decades inspired a design firm and frame builder to fashion a bike tough enough for this town.
Posted inBlogs
I melt with U-Haul: Scenes from this year’s wet Guerrilla Truck Show
The annual art and design street party was rained on—but not rained out.
Posted inNews & Politics
This week’s Chicagoans: Allen and Judy Koessel, wall-covering designers
Allen and Judy Koessel, wall-covering designers: “We did fabric for Walter Payton.”
Posted inFood & Drink
Summer House Santa Monica masters California artifice
Summer House Santa Monica masters California artifice.
Posted inFood & Drink
A10, the much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, is for now a B minus
A10, Matthias Merges’s much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, gets a B minus for now.
Posted inBlogs
No sofas at SOFA, but plenty of other decorative art
A sampling of the work at the annual Sculptural Objects Functional Art + Design expo.
Posted inArts & Culture
The art of making history
The Nazis’ sophisticated propaganda machine, artists’ reactions to the 2008 financial crisis: Two new exhibits of political history, then and now.
Posted inArts & Culture
David Plowden sheds light on the midwestern prairie
In an austere new collection, Heartland, photographer David Plowden celebrates the plain—and the plains.
Posted inCity Life
Virginia Montgomery opens the vault
Virginia Montgomery has repurposed a bank vault in Avondale to house her massage business
Posted inArts & Culture
This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
Chicagoans recommend a quasi-fictional novel, reliably funny improv, and a new literary mag.
Posted inFilm
Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
Posted inFilm
Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
Posted inFilm
Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival
Posted inFilm
Music Box presents Architecture & Design Film Festival
Music Box presents the third annual Architecture & Design Film Festival