Word: sightings
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...With a fuselage-gray roof that comes to rest on the ground like giant wingtips, the building has the look of a vast origami stealth bomber. Created by architect Tadao Ando, it is home to 21_21 Design Sight, an ambitious design museum of which Miyake is one of three directors. The others are product designer Naoto Fukasawa and graphics guru Taku Satoh. Their mission is to separate design from the mercantile world of branding, and give it its original, purer meaning: the creation of practical and beautiful objects that improve the quality of life...
...name poetically suggests ("21_21" was devised to convey a visual ability that goes beyond mere 20/20), Design Sight intends to be forward-looking if not avant-garde. Its first exhibition-organized by Fukasawa and running until July 29-involves 30 designers, the majority Japanese, responding to the theme of chocolate (the next show is planned along the theme of water). The results are a toothsome twist on product design and consumer desire. The artist HIMAA has made a chocolate key with a bite mark that turns the lock; the design team of Kouhei Okamoto and Toshitaka Nakamura, professionally known...
...Whether the typical Tokyo Midtown shopper will divorce this from design's role in moving products off shelves is another matter, but Miyake is optimistic, hoping that ordinary Tokyoites will drop in on Design Sight "casually, like visiting a supermarket." We know what he means, but can't help wondering if there's another comparison besides supermarkets and their brightly lit aisles of attention-grabbing packaging, competing for your dollar...
...arrested for not having papers. To get new documents, she must first return to the neighborhood where Amer was killed, and get a note from the police station there. But that's impossible, because the neighborhood is controlled by the Shi'ite militias, who would likely shoot her on sight. "Without my husband, I am now a nobody," she says. "For the government, I don't exist...
...agreed to seek a solution that will satisfy all parties," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on recent talks between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Kosovo. Except, added Lavrov, "No such solution is immediately in sight...