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- Music, The Block Beat Sep 18, 2019
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Sheila Rashid makes possibilities you can wear
The Chicago designer’s unisex clothes give people the freedom to define themselves.
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Jul 3, 2019
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Eviction is more than just a bureaucratic process
An architecture critic and a housing reporter visit a new exhibition in Milwaukee.
- City Life, Shop Local Feb 26, 2019
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Warm milk for the fast-fashion weary
Milk Handmade spotlights local design.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Nov 23, 2018
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'African-American Designers in Chicago' is an important corrective to art history
The new Cultural Center exhibit shows how much design innovation came from black artists in Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 14, 2016
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Shop sexy, local, and political this weekend at Shop Sensual
Shop Sensual features erotic items made by local designers, performances, and workshops from this Friday, December 16, to this Sunday, the 18th, at Reunion in Humboldt Park.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2016
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A Chicago designer and LA band Autolux take aim at Trump with a vagina full of rainbows
Chicago artist Tom Feltenberger based his anti-Trump design on the cover of Autolux's current album, Pussy's Dead.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Oct 12, 2016
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Moholy-Nagy isn’t the only major modernist in town right now
Over at the Graham Foundation, a retrospective of the work of Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji is an unlikely and unintentional companion piece to the Art Institute’s “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present.”
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2016
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The Guerrilla Truck Show returns after a brief hiatus
Photos of the Guerrilla Truck Show at Merchandise Mart during the annual NeoCon commercial design show.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2015
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UIC students take a class in Kickstarter
Local designer—and crowd-funding success story—Craighton Berman gives young designers a hands-on lesson in self-promotion in the new Entrepreneurial Product Development class.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 26, 2014
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The ultimate Chicago bike, revealed—meet the BLACKLINE
Chicago's entry into the Oregon Manifest bike design competition was revealed on Friday night.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 23, 2014
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'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.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 12, 2014
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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.
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Apr 6, 2014
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This week's Chicagoans: Allen and Judy Koessel, wall-covering designers
"We did 80 rolls of wallpaper with little crystal rhinestones for Dr. Phil's wife's dressing room."
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jan 10, 2014
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Summer House Santa Monica masters California artifice
The newest restaurant from Lettuce Entertain You is among the empire's most atmospherically successful.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Dec 27, 2013
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A10, the much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, is for now a B minus
Matthias Merges gets an A for effort, though.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 1, 2013
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No sofas at SOFA, but plenty of other decorative art
A sampling of the work at the annual Sculptural Objects Functional Art + Design expo.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 28, 2013
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The art of making history
The Nazis' sophisticated propaganda machine, artists' reactions to the 2008 financial crisis: How your political history gets made, then and now.
- Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Oct 16, 2013
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David Plowden sheds light on the midwestern prairie
In an austere new collection, Heartland, the longtime photographer celebrates the plain—and the plains.
- City Life, Space Apr 25, 2013
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Virginia Montgomery opens the vault
The massage therapist runs her operation out of a repurposed bank in Avondale.
- Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Feb 14, 2013
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This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
How Should a Person Be?, Blood Oath Improv, and Monsters and Dust
- Film, Movie Sidebar Apr 11, 2012
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Stories about storeys: Architecture & Design Film Festival
The third annual festival at the Music Box
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 14, 2012
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Blue Note bonanza
A Japanese website offers the full visual spectrum of Blue Note Records's iconic design work.
- City Life, Space Dec 29, 2011
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New Year's resolution: redecorate
2012 is the perfect time to freshen up your dated decor
- Arts & Culture, Art Feature Dec 22, 2011
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Erica Michie, the designer
'I think design can really have an impact—changing from design as an aesthetic to design as a problem-solving mentality'
- City Life, Space Dec 15, 2011
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Don’t buy it—build it!
Whitney Gaylord's Logan Square graystone is filled with custom-designed furniture from her shop, Maker
