Design and Architecture
SoCal Design: A New Age for Making?
Speciality fabricator Smilee Barnacle talks about “making” in the digital age. Bobbye Tigerman looks back at yesterday’s community of makers and designers.
By Frances Anderton • • 23m ListenIn an age of complex digital design LA artists and architects are turning to specialty fabricators to build their concepts. Smilee Barnacle talks about “making” in LA’s new age of manufacturing. And Bobbye Tigerman looks back at a past community of makers and designers, profiled in her Handbook of California Design. Plus, Don Waldie talks about how Angeleno-style mobility was off limits to him until the advent of rapid transit on “Iconic Wilshire Boulevard.”
Banner image: Smilee Barnacle sanding fiberglass in his Barnacle Brothers studio
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3 storiesHandbook of California Design
Bobbye Tigerman co-curated California Design, 1930—1965 : Living in a Modern Way, an exhibit shown last year at LACMA. The show was a hit – and the research produced so much rich history about designers and makers that the curators decided to create a book about them.
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In an age of complex digital design LA artists and architects are turning to specialty fabricators to build their concepts.
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