Tim Tomkinson

What if you could get a real work of art for as little as $20? And it’s not 
a coffeehouse portrait of Neil Young?

Regional and world-class museums alike must daily contend with the same pedestrian woe: How can we show all this art?

An interest-free government loan to buy contemporary art? Someone tell Fannie Mae.

So you bought a little art and you kinda wonder what’s in your—and its—future. Read on.

For millennia, kings and clerics alike have understood that little inspires awe and confers power better than a battalion of marble statues, an epic tapestry, or an exquisitely rendered portrait.

If the design world feels like an endless parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin it all.

Hammers and nails are out, friends, and as the (patent) pending nanotech revolution shows, manufacturing is on the eve of the atom.

It started out as a great idea: Do away with wet-plaster wall construction, which required multiple workers taking days or weeks to plaster a house (and weeks or months for the plaster to set).

Enter Serious Materials and its EcoRock drywall.

If the design world feels like an endless  parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin it all.

Everything you wanted to know about prefab but were afraid to ask! We've tapped the brain behind popular web resource FabPreFab to explain the birds and bees of manufactured housing.

Which comes first, the movement or the manifesto? From Arts and Crafts to eco-design, a 7-step guide to design movements.

Manifesto: Bruce Sterling, “Viridian Design Speech” (1998)

Manifesto: Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley, “Deconstructivist Architecture” (1988)

Manifestos: Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), Congress for the New Urbanism, “Charter of the New Urbanism” (1993)

Manifesto: Robert Venturi, “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” (1966)

Manifestos: Le Corbusier, “Towards a New Architecture” (1923)Walter Gropius, “The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus” (1923)

Manifesto: F.T. Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” (1909)

Manifesto: William Morris, “The Lesser Arts of Life” (1877)

There is a pivotal point at which an idea becomes a conversation, a conversation turns into a conspiracy, and a conspiracy foments a movement.

The basic principle of prefab, whereby a home is fabricated in one location and then delivered to another, has been around for at least a few hundred years.