You’re making dough burgers. You didn’t invent them, but you’re getting better at it. Nothing could be cheaper, and that’s the idea. You need those last coins for Piggys. “Who wants one?” you ask your moocher pals. No reaction as they pass the bottle. “Ingrates!” you mutter, flipping the dough on a paper plate heaping it with sugar. What happened…
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Writing on the Wall
How the new field of forensic architecture holds those accountable. first published in “Ask Louis” for GRAPHISOFT USA | April, 2020 What caused the Grenfell fire? Forensic Architecture rebuilt the past to find out. The London train, speeding from Hammersmith to Baker Street, frames the silhouette of architect Nick Masterton in its window. The white plastic enshrouding Grenfell Tower flies…
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Fallen Leaves — A Vineyard House by Maryann Thompson Architects
by Louis Postel in BOSTON MAGAZINE https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2007/02/15/fallen-leaves/ Maximizing light, air, and space was Thompson’s main design test during the four-year project. The challenge was brought home to Thompson and project manager William Pevear on their first visit to the site—though it’s on the beachy “up-island” end, there was no ocean view at all. “And so William and I stood on…
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Mariko Kusumoto’s Surrealism
by Louis Postel in New England Home. Photos by Webb Chappell https://www.marikokusumoto.com/new-england-home
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DESIGN RE-VISION
AN ART COLLECTOR’S Penthouse by Maho Abe of Zen Associates, with David Glod, builder. by LOUIS POSTEL March 2007, originally published in BOSTON MAGAZINE (photography by Richard Mandelkorn). In a Cambridge penthouse, master cabinetmaker Paul Cusack carefully buffs a black lacquer credenza that he made 21 years ago and jokes with the homeowner about “lifetime guarantees.” He is fixing the…
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The Height of Depth with Painter Eric Aho
First Published in New England Home Text by Louis Postel Photography by Portrait by Eric Scott March 20, 2009 Alone on a Vermont hillside, painter Eric Aho conducts a symphony in texture, shape and color. Instead of a baton, he waves a long brush, dipping it into one pot and then another. He paints with the loose-limbed dexterity of a…
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Adventures in Perception | Artist Youjin Moon
Will AI-driven robots replace designers and artists? Count on it, say the futurists. No one is immune. Not so fast, insist philosophers of art and design. They have long held that practitioners have something even the most gifted AI robot won’t be able to hack: an imagination. That is, artists and designers can create images, forms and spaces from that…
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The Blue Grid
“How about when someone doesn’t use Yelp or post on Instagram, then what?” interjected a cell phone interface designer standing in the back of a Design Museum pop-up breakfast event held in July. Rick Kuhn, the award-winning Design Director of the Boston office of Perkins + Will, paused at the lectern. He had been explaining how his team collected social…
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Zillow Talk
er Kate Coughlin of Boston, MA has clients anyone would want: “They want to have a lot of fun. They are after a more light-hearted, family-friendly aesthetic…tired of all the heavy brown furniture. One very traditional client I am working with now just requested a neutral palette dotted with mid-century pieces for her new home in Aspen.”
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How Does She Do It
by Louis Postel, originally published in New England Home | August 2016: In Our Backyard The eye moves up the curtain in search of where its pattern repeats. Finding repeats becomes a kind of game. Where to find the next line of peacocks, trellises, and inky down strokes? – It’s a visual game that can become a needless distraction.…
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Trade Only Tip 106: Social Media Leadership in 2 Steps
Ideas about leadership are changing fast. From the Lee Iacocca “my way or the highway” model, we are recognizing the immense value of the leader who quietly makes a safe space in which to work and to get a job done right. We are talking about the kind of design professional who can orchestrate colleagues, partners, clients, subs, vendors, craftsmen,…
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Provincetown Magazine Vol 1, No. 3
Here’s the entire issue of Provincetown Magazine vol 1, no. 3, 1997. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K_v1SOnkJM48CPhvo6oSN2bp4YkZF6Ga/view?usp=sharing Louis Postel, Editor in Chief, Founding Editor; Richard LeBlond, Stewart Weiner, Senior Editors; Candy Jernigan, art director, featuring Candy Jernigan’s cover; stories by Sheila Miles, EJ Ely Terry Kahn, Richard LeBlond, Dennis Dermody, Stewart Weiner (aka Lebreo), and “End of the World” by Gary Halgren More art by Gary…
