Design and Architecture
Wedding cake, Museum of Failure, Syd Mead
We love a good success story, but we love an epic fail even more. DnA visits the Museum of Failure. We also talk to "visual futurist" Syd Mead and architect Craig Hodgetts about creating a "plausible reality."
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenPhoto: Sam West, founder of the Museum of Failure, poses with a Chinese sex doll at his exhibition in the A+D Museum in downtown LA. (Avishay Artsy)
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3 storiesCake as art
Baker Jack Phillips decorates a cake in his Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, September 21, 2017 Photo by Rick Wilking/Reuters Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission,…
Read the story8 minThe Museum of Failure
Ford overhyped the Edsel when it was introduced in 1957. Customers thought it was ugly and overpriced, and the name became synonymous with corporate failure.
Read the story10 minThe Movie Art of Syd Mead
Syd Mead envisioned the Spinner flying police cars in Blade Runner, the Light Cycles in Tron and the U.S.S. Sulaco in Aliens. His fingerprints are also on the built universes these vehicles inhabit.
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