Design

Creativity Beyond Belief!

Digging into this story, in Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first large breeding reactor in Germany.

The reactor was designed to use plutonium as fuel and be cooled by sodium, giving it a higher potential for disaster. Opposition built to the power plant, and the highly controversial was continually delayed.

Finally completed at enormous expense, the nuclear facility never opened. Besides community concerns, the reactor would have rendered the building contaminated and unusable, becoming both a political and environmental nightmare.

The building is essentially one of the most expensive, complicated pieces of trash in the world and lives a new life as an amusement park.

Functional Fair Tales

Jenny Ekdahl is currently pursuing her Masters degree at Sweden’s Lund University School of Industrial Design. Her Spring 2011 project “Charms & Disguises,” which was recently exhibited at DMY Berlin, is an exploration of the deeper meaning of fairy tales.

Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club

People

Bare Escentuals Founder Leslie Blodgett

Move Over, Estée Lauder NYTimes

Leslie Blodgett, left, the chief executive of Bare Escentuals. Right, Estée Lauder in 1961.Peter DaSilva for The New York Times; Getty ImagesFor openers, the NYTimes writes:

Not since Estée Lauder dabbed Youth-Dew behind the ears of thousands has a lone woman so influenced the beauty industry.

We didn’t know that Shiseido bought Bare Escentuals for $1.7 billion last year, making it one of the biggest cosmetic industry takeovers in history. A key term of the deal was that the founder continue, not only as chairman, but as ‘face’ of the brand.

Meet Leslie Blodgett, whose mother warned her often that she would never amount to anything if she didn’t get serious about her future.

Design

Serious Business in Hot Weather

Short Suits for the Office and Beyond WSJ.com

Left to right, summer suits from Akris, Bottega Veneta, Jason Wu, Wes Gordon, Erin Fetherson

Sassy, crisply tailored Smart Sensuality suits proliferated the Spring Summer 2011 runways.

‘I particularly love putting super dressy details on shorts to allow them to be worn in the evening,’ said Jason Wu earlier this week. The designer will offer a cropped tuxedo look, including a bow tie, in his upcoming resort collection. Black tie affairs may take on an entirely new look.