Design & Desire in the Twentieth Century

This cartoon posted on artdepartmental’s blog made me laugh out loud! Thanks for sharing, Alison.

Liquid Angel, 2011.
Source: http://www.wherethepunis.com/changing-tone-tone-dont-pun-378.html

Happy Holidays to you all! Design and Desire will be back again in 2012 with more posts on Twentieth Century Design.

With Christmas at close hand we’re rerunning a Silly Saturday post on everyone’s favorite toy, LEGOS. This post orignally ran on January 15, 2011.

LEGOs - they’re not just for kids anymore! Former architect Adam Reed Tucker builds iconic skyscrapers out of LEGOs. His work is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington DC.

Not only has Prairie Mod posted Grant W. Scholbrock’s Gamble House and Robie House built out of LEGOs, but they’ve also designed their own version of Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect himself, in LEGOs using LEGO Digital Designer.

LEGO Frank Lloyd Wright presents a LEGO model of his Guggenheim Museum.
Source: http://www.prairiemod.com/.a/6a00d8341bf72a53ef013485fb117f970c-300wi

Interested in emulating Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings in LEGOs? Check out these LEGO Architecture kits of Wright’s most famous works: Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum.

LEGO’s Landmark series features kits on the Empire State Building, the John Hancock Building, and the Seattle Space Needle.

Slightly blasphemous but nonetheless amusing are W. Lynn Garrett’s Patron Saints of Graphic Design. As a survivor of both Catholic school and art school, I hope these “saints” are watching out for me.

Thanks to Jacob Cass of Just Creative Design for sharing.

W. Lynn Garrett, Saint Typo (2003).
Source: http://images4.cpcache.com/nocache/product/11119214v2147483647_150x150_Front.jpg

As if ten reasons weren’t enough and one would need fifty reasons not to date a graphic designer, we’re sharing the fifty reasons that were originally posted on A Bourbon for Silvia blog. Thank you to @klad2688 of Kevin Lee Allen Design for bringing this hilarious post to our attention.

Some of our favorite reasons NOT to date a graphic designer:

7. You’ll come last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.
27. Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
28. They hate Excel.
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.

Read the entire list.

Microsoft, 2008. Wireframe from patent for mobile dating application.
Source: http://blog.dialaphone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/miscrosoftdating1_29_02_08.jpg

Who’s not feeling a little older? This hilarious cartoon shows even mid-century modern design is having a difficult time aging gracefully. Thanks to Core77 for sharing, and you can view the entire mid-modern design cartoon on their blog.

Craighton Berman. Cartoon (2011), originally posted on FueledByCoffee
Source: http://blog.fueledbycoffee.com/photo/1280/5865659382/1/tumblr_llt42bPoCc1qb5vt3

We’ve heard of flipping houses, but this is insane! You certainly don’t want to get drunk and come home to one of these!

Upside-down house, architect and date unknown.
Source: http://www.home-reviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/clip_image007_thumb25.jpg

For more crazy examples visit the Home Reviews blog.

And on a related note, here’s a cartoon by Colin Tedford:

Colin Tedford, 2008.
Source:http://www.colintedford.com/comics/misc-strips/tedford-house.gif

Olivia Walch (2010). Lesser-known Works Frank Lloyd Wright
Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/IMQ0922.jpg

First published by The Washington Post in September 2010, this cartoon was created by Olivia Walch winner of The Post’s “America’s Next Great Cartoonist Contest. According to Ms. Walch, “This is what you come up with if your Dad is an architect.”

Set design can be a serious, demanding and sometimes even dangerous occupation, but Kevin Lee Allen takes time out for a rather humorous look at his profession and his design and construction team at Kevin Lee Allen Design. This article was originally posted on The Kevin Lee Allen Design (KLAD) Blog on March 11, 2011.

Kevin points to “fierce, fearless, fabulous Perry” the carpenter.
Source: http://klad.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Kevinlimberingfinger-300x225.jpg