Fagus Werk, a photo by Joost Barendregt on Flickr.

Modernist Icon Joins UNESCO Heritage List:

Its sleek design and airy glass façade made Walter Gropius’ Fagus Factory influential, both in its day — and also now, a century later. On Saturday, the United Nations’ cultural organisation UNESCO announced it would add the factory to its prestigious list of World Heritage Sites.

Describing it as “a landmark in the development of modern architecture in Europe and North America,” UNESCO incorporated the factory, which manufactures shoe lasts, into the elite international heritage list.

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Peter Wegner’s campus creations play with words, color & Split-Flaps!

Peter Wegner’s campus creations play with words, color – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times:

By that time he had just made his big break as an artist, thanks to a flurry of gallery shows: at Todd Hosfelt in San Francisco, CRG and Mary Boone in New York, and William Griffin in Los Angeles, all within a two-year period. One breakthrough series, also a study in color, consisted of canvases made to look like commercial paint chips and actually covered in house paint, complete with names like “blue horizon” and “fragile blue dusk” (“poetry written by commerce,” he calls it).

But when he looked into the idea of doing a flip-digit piece, the European companies who had the technology seemed unwilling. Having more connections in Europe this time around, after showing his work there, helped.

He ultimately found a company outside of Bern, Switzerland, willing to manufacture the piece for him. And he found an animation expert in Long Beach to help him program the piece using a mix of off-the-shelf and proprietary software.

He spent months perfecting the 80 different colors in each spinning module (picture a mini-Rolodex with colored polycarbonate flaps instead of white paper cards) that makes up each cell on the grid. He also drew numerous storyboards — even quick images on the back of envelopes — to map out key sequences in the artwork.