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Audio expert and visual artist Tyler Adams (also an alumnus of KCRW) has brought the two worlds together in an art exhibit currently on show at Steve Turner Contemporary. Abe Rivera is a graphic designer and contributor to the DnA blog (also an alumnus of KCRW) and wrote this review of the show.
Material Excitement and Aural Architecture

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By the Good4Nothing Connoisseur, aka Bennett Stein
To paraphrase Serge Gainsbourg sampling some swingin’ ’60s Audrey Hepburn movie, “You are a very stylish girl.” Last night this refrain whipped through my skull on a loop as sundry sultry but stern-faced models took chic, cut on the bias, leather- and “paper effect” cotton-constructed MOE dresses for a spin atop two circus box platforms beside a giant …

Admirers of human ingenuity have found plenty to inspire awe over the last decade in the form of spectacular new bridges around the world. Now LA has the chance to create its own. The shortlisted designs are in for the Replacement 6th Street Viaduct (which has to be demolished, due to “concrete cancer”,  saddening  many who love the existing bridge, especially those, like Councilman Jose Huizar, who grew …

How do you add soul to design by algorithm? That seems to be a goal of design duo Lisa Little and Emily White, co-founders of architecture firm Layer. Like a number of LA architects, Little and White have explored the spatial and formal possibilities of digital design and fabrication through installations in public art settings and their latest is on display at Pasadena Museum of California …

The coup de grâce of London 2012 Olympics’ opening celebrations was the ceremonial lighting of the cauldron, signaling the start of the competition. That spectacle — a piece of pure theater in which 204 copper petals were carried in individually, each by a competing nation, then laid together, and lit by a young athletes who took the torch from soccer player David Beckham. Then the …

By Javier Cabral
KCRW generated quite the design buzz this last weekend at the Dwell on Design exhibition. Sonic Trace, a project of KCRW & AIR (Association of Independents in Radio), was there to personally showcase the 30 submissions received for the sound booth design challenge, with a focus on the winning design submitted by Hugo Martinez and Christin To of Mat-ter: La Burbuja or …