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Recently I re-connected with a friend on Facebook and got distracted by her photo albums. As I looked through the images I discovered something thought-provoking. Dorka Kheen collaborated with well-known artist Brian Goggin to create an art installation in San Francisco's historic literary district of North Beach. It is the first permanent solar-powered public art piece in the United States, and it’s an interesting take on the role and form of literature and language in our digital culture.

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Do We Really Need Architects?

Mar 31, 2009

Your next home may come from a Web site, not a design studio. Last month houseplans.com, a four-year-old Web site that sells off-the-rack blueprints for homes, acquired the rights to the plans for staff housing at Sea Ranch, an environmentally sensitive development on a rugged stretch of coast 100 miles north of San Francisco.

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One Way To Deal With Negative Word Of Mouth

Mar 6, 2009

Embrace it. Because it’s a part of you. Your story. Your history. Enter Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco. They, like just about all restaurants, get reviewed on Yelp. And, like just about all restaurants, they get some weird, negative reviews peppered in with the good ones. But what did Delfina do instead of trying to ignore them? They took the quotes from some of the one-star reviews and printed them on t-shirts for their employees to wear.

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