Design and Architecture
La Burbuja Has Landed
La Burbuja has landed! Hugo Martinez, Christin To and team explain how a cool idea became a hot pink place where people want to confide their stories.
By Frances Anderton • • 24m ListenLa Burbuja has landed! Hear how the designers turned an ambitious concept into a cool silver and hot pink place where people want to confide their stories -- with Hugo Martinez, Christin To, Megan Pryor, Wendy Carrillo and Carlos Moreno. Plus, women designers are the flavor of the summer. Why? Hear from Bill Stern, Tibbie Dunbar, Gere Kavanaugh and Iris Anna Regn.
Banner image: (L-R) Christin To and Megan Pryor in La Burbuja. Photo by Eric Pearse Chavez
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Three months ago, we launched a competition for a sound booth for Sonic Trace, a show of stories from immigrants from Mexico and Central America produced by Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Eric Pearse-Chavez.
Read the story11 minThe Summer of Designing Women
This summer there are two exhibits that single out the work of women designers: The Autry National Center in Griffith Park is showing California's Designing Women, 1896-1986 , a show of 46 women designers working in furniture, products and textiles dating back to the Victorian era.
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