Creatures of Comfort

Ceramics by Wim Borst (b. 1946).

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:36:12 -0400

Ceramics by Wim Borst (b. 1946).

Shakkei (emprunter le paysage), 1985 Watch the Doors Please!,...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:26 -0400

Shakkei (emprunter le paysage), 1985

Watch the Doors Please!, Chicago, 1980-81

Daniel Buren

Fisherman, wash house women, farmers, and people of the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:01:32 -0400

Fisherman, wash house women, farmers, and people of the countryside wearing conceptual fashion pieces.

from Sonomama: High Fashion in the Japanese Countryside by Taishi Hirokawa (1987)

Site: Sculpture in the Environment for Best Products, at the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:00:58 -0400

Site: Sculpture in the Environment

for Best Products, at the time the largest catalog showroom merchandiser in the United States.

c. 1980

Bloomingdale’s Shopping Bag designs Summer 1989, Robert...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:27:06 -0400

Bloomingdale’s Shopping Bag designs

Summer 1989, Robert Valentine

New Year’s 1991 Shopping Bag

1983, Melanie Marder Parks

First Flush of Summer Shopping Bag, 1990

via the AIGA Archives.

Posters by Japanese designer Koichi Sato.

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:25:45 -0400

Posters by Japanese designer Koichi Sato.

Call for Interns

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:05:14 -0400

The Creatures of Comfort studio is looking for our next superstar summer intern!

Interns work with the small staff at our New York design studio on a variety of aspects of clothing design, production, and management.

If interested, please send a cover letter and resume toinfo@creaturesofcomfort.us.

Photo

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:26:46 -0400

Anjelica Huston and Liza Minnelli, 1975

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:04:07 -0400

Anjelica Huston and Liza Minnelli, 1975

Insomnia drawings by Louise Bourgeois. c. 1994-1995.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:13:16 -0400

Insomnia drawings by Louise Bourgeois. c. 1994-1995.

An experimental meditation on Times Square marquees and iconic...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:12:39 -0400

An experimental meditation on Times Square marquees and iconic advertising, Klein’s first film captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York’s Great White Way. Illustrative of Klein’s transition from photographer to filmmaker, Broadway by Light was declared by Orson Welles to be “the first film I’ve seen in which color was absolutely necessary. —calendar.walkerart.org

via Friends & Family

Somali Womens Basketball team circa 1970s

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:23:34 -0400

Somali Womens Basketball team

circa 1970s

Louise Bourgeois for Helmut Lang.

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:58 -0400

Louise Bourgeois for Helmut Lang.

Last Two Speakers of Dying Language Refuse to Talk to Each Other

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:07:06 -0400

World

By Erica Ho

April 18, 2011

The survival of an endangered language may depend on two people — and all they want to do is ignore each other.

Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquez, the last speakers of a language called Ayapaneco, live less than half a mile away from each other in Ayapa, Mexico. But no matter how precious the cultural implications of keeping their language alive are, they are not going to speak to each other.

The Guardian notes that, “It is not clear whether there is a long-buried argument behind their mutual avoidance, but people who know them say they have never really enjoyed each other’s company.”

Ayapaneco is one of many dozens of indigenous languages remaining in Mexico. Perhaps the most extreme case, it managed to survive the Spanish conquest in Mexico. Sixty-eight native languages are still in use today, although a handful are on the verge of extinction.

Regardless, linguists are still attempting to preserve the language despite the lack of communication between the last two fluent speakers, who no longer converse with anyone regularly in their native tongue. When Segovia, 75, and Velazquez, 65, both die, their language will pass away with them.

Still, Daniel Suslak, a linguistic anthropologist, sums up their relationship succinctly: “They don’t have a lot in common.”

Christian Subcultures, 2006 David Byrne

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:07:34 -0400

Christian Subcultures, 2006

David Byrne

Imaginary Social Relationships, 2006 David Byrne

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:06:04 -0400

Imaginary Social Relationships, 2006

David Byrne

Romantic Destiny, 2003 David Byrne

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:04:01 -0400

Romantic Destiny, 2003

David Byrne

The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb Peter Nelson 1994

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:00:28 -0400

The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb

Peter Nelson

1994

Nose Cup by Ken Price

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:58:26 -0400

Nose Cup by Ken Price

Endpapers for God Bless Love by Nanette Newman, 1972.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:58:38 -0400

Endpapers for God Bless Love by Nanette Newman, 1972.