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<title><![CDATA[Cars R Us]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Andrew Bush’s photographs, featured in his new book Drive, remind us just how intimate we have become with our cars. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report from Hale County, Alabama]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Greensboro Alabama is a city of contrasts, and a place where new design thinking is revealing itself in a surprising number of ways. An occasional report from Winterhouse Institute on its Design for Social Impact & Innovation Project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:28:01 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Books Received: July 2009]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Design Observer Fall book list is here.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 07.04.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:13:39 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Take Me Out to the Old Yankee Stadium]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The new Yankee stadium, like most retro stadiums, bears the burden of being faux, a recreation, like a Disney version of reality. It works and it doesn’t.  

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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:32:57 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Alan Rapp: Personal Space]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Sommer’s Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design was published in forty years ago, and its compact title concept —  an invisible but perceptible security zone surrounding an individual — caught on. But where is Sommer now?

A recent study in Perception finds that listening to music on headphones alters our sense of sociospatial relations. Until these more contemporary strands of inquiry result in a truly new analysis of how we perceive our interpersonal zones today, Personal Space is now available in a new edition, with some additional commentary by Dr. Sommer, from Bosko Books in the UK
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:41:33 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 06.27.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:52:04 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Angela Riechers: Hot Ticket]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[<div>To see a play or movie, or ride the <a href="http://philately.ttrr.org/usa/us01002.html" title="" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 119, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Twentieth Century Limited</a>, you needed a ticket, and the development of ticket-dispensing machines paralleled the growth of popular culture.</div>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:34:04 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mad Music]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1962, I spent hours listening to <span style="font-style: italic;">Mad</span> magazine’s first LP (Big Top Records), <span style="font-style: italic;">Mad “Twists” Rock ‘N’ Roll</span>. Owning the record made me feel like I was part of a club, which latter evolved into the sardonic, ironic sixties youth culture. It brings me back to a time before art, design, and humor had to be sophisticated to be good. 

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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:23:31 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Spoiler Alert! Or, Happy Father's Day]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dad couldn't help it. He was a natural born spoiler.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:27:28 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 06.20.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:01:45 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Beauty of a Park]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The High Line in Manhattan, whose first section opened Monday, would seem to be Olmsted’s nightmare.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:06:37 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Seymour, An Introduction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a world of design consultants, information architects, and experience planners, Seymour Chwast is something refreshingly old-fashioned: a commercial artist. If this is a term that has fallen into dispute, Seymour is the best argument for reviving it.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:38:40 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Free Books]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves a good book, of course, but lets not forget that the books were FREE! 600 books given away in one day on the streets of New York City.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:41:41 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Another Side of War: The Photographs of Manuel Bromberg]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There are other photographs taken on the beaches of Normandy that are almost entirely unknown. Never seen before, we present the photographs of Manuel Bromberg, Normandy, 1944.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:54:54 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jason Grant: Cultured Graphic Hygiene]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Regardless of how difficult, disobedient or messy their subject, museum posters are courteous and clean. Is there any reason why graphic design for museums shouldn’t be the measure of their exhibits? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:17:19 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Books Received: Summer 2009]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Design Observer Summer book list is here.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:43:57 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 06.06.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:41:00 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to Design Students Everywhere]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:26:07 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Once Out of Chaos]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:18:40 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[John Cantwell: Trump, The Logo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The logo above the Trump Tower's main entrance, huge and gleaming in 34-inch brass block letters, bluntly announces Donald Trump’s presence on the street. It’s crude, perhaps, but undeniably effective. In a neighborhood filled with names like Bergdorf, Cartier, and Tiffany, none is more prominent than Trump’s.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:38:23 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 05.30.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 12:28:02 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ellen Lupton: A Conversation With David Barringer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[David Barringer’s book, There’s Nothing Funny About Design is actually very funny. The conversation that follows was conducted via e-mail over a three-day period. 

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<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 08:14:54 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Much Is That Artifact in the Window?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Many of us have bought design objects for pleasure and / or scholarship. We’ve paid varying amounts — high and low. But what or who determines the value of a design artifact?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 01:28:19 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Adam Eeuwens: One Word, Plastics]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This is a call to action for designers to donate credit cards, gift cards, discount cards, hotel key cards, phone cards to the Graphic Design Museum in Breda, The Netherlands.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 07:25:39 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 05.23.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 01:10:25 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Christian Bök: W, a poem]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A poem about typography by Christian Bök.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 03:39:09 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[This End Up: Renzo Piano's Modern Wing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Julie Lasky reviews the Art Institute of Chicago's Modern Wing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:16:01 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Announcing Project M at Winterhouse]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 11:40:08 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Interview With Philip Glass]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In 2005, Adam Harrison Levy interviewed Philip Glass for a BBC documentary film about Chuck Close. Glass was seated in front of the monumental painting Phil, 1969. This is their exchange.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 05:01:43 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 05.16.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 07:14:35 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Design Observer Audience Survey]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 01:12:24 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cedars]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The wake of dead trees is thick behind me, and the others weep and gnash their teeth. Larger trees I leave for some chainsaw to come; I'm a writer, not a lumberjack. Michael Erand on cedars.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:31:13 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Olive Drab: BKLYN DESIGNS 2009]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ernest Beck reviews Brooklyn Designs 2009.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 04:34:39 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 05.09.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 11:41:56 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Invasion of the Neutered Sprites]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[There is an epidemic threatening our world: the pointy-limbed little people that appear in every other nonprofit logo. Death to the Neutered Sprites!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 10:44:16 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Books Received: Spring 2009]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Design Observer Spring 2009 list of 50+ books received.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 01:14:48 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Peter Zumthor]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Thomas de Monchaux on architect Peter Zumthor's disarming, and perhaps even dangerous, appeal. Pritzker Prize Winner 2009.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 03:21:35 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 05.02.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 09:58:24 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Father of Shrek, Grandfather of Tweet]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[William Steig was the father of vanity license plate abbreviations and the grandfather of the Instant Messenger, SMS, iChat, and Twitter shorthand.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:09:46 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Back to the Garden]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Report by Julie Lasky about the 2009 International Furniture Fair in Milan.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:53:29 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What's The Story?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[And what becomes of all those dead tweets, anyway — all those long-expired, evaporated updates?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:58:43 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 04.25.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:56:15 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Burtin: Design and Science]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Will Burtin’s story is presented in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin</span>. Like all of the emigré “pioneers,” Burtin brought an amazing amount of talent and energy (along with plain old ambition) to his modernist approach.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:07:23 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Margaret Wertheim: Susan Boyle and The Beauty of Crochet]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I want to reflect here on Susan Boyle's massive appeal from a very personal point of view, for I have spent much of the last three years managing a project that harnesses the creative energies of hundreds of middle-aged female "nobodies": Crochet Reef Project]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:57:43 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ken Worpole (Photographs by Jason Orton): Time and Tide]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tidal pools were once common along the coast of Britain, particularly at seaside holiday resorts. Although many such pools have been destroyed or exist as ruins, others are being revived thanks to the energies of lido enthusiasts. This photo essay captures their beauty, even in decay.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/186189161X/designobserver-20/]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:31:22 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Today, 04.18.09]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Each morning, before starting work, I spend 30 minutes looking for images that are beautiful, funny, absurd and inspiring. Here's Today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:01:16 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Michael Sorkin: On Paul Auster]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The annual Lewis Mumford Lecture has become an intellectual rite of spring for urbanists, architects, and students of both. Here is Michael Sorkin's introduction to novelist and filmmaker Paul Auster.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:00:23 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Land in Crisis: The Antelope Valley Story]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Can the County of Los Angeles claim adverse possession, and rescind residents' rights to their own water? One plaintiff is fighting for the rights of landowners who are currently not pumping from the aquifer, and has mounted a class action suit in order to do so.

She also believes that design can help solve the problem. Can it? What is at stake is the degree to which designers can lend their ingenuity to find a way to cut through this mess. And, in so doing, to help restore water to its rightful recipients.

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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:54:19 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[13th Annual Webby Awards]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that Design Observer has been nominated for Webby Awards for Best Culture Blog and Best Writing. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:12:58 PM</pubDate>
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