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Most amazing designer in a pinafore. Ever.

Art and Design post by Briar Levit on February 19, 2009 - 1:56pm; tagged design, female artists, Ray Eames.

Say hello to the smart blog—again. Yep, we're bringin' the arts back to the Bitch blog roll. First installment—Ray Eames: Godmother of modern design.

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Adventures in Feministory: Stepanova and Popova

Love / Shove post by Briar Levit on November 16, 2008 - 1:54pm; tagged art, design, fashion, feministory, soviet, textiles.

As a graphic designer, my interests in innovative women of history are often strongest for those involved in visual arts. And as a former student of Russian and a devoted Russophile, my obsession with designers of post-revolutionary Russia is off the charts. Enter Varvara Stepanova and Liubov Popova.

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Reader Shock: Anecdotes Are Not Trends

Raising Hell post by Rachel Fudge on February 14, 2008 - 6:06pm; tagged class war, design, new york times.

The New York Times is at it again, publishing yet another random collection of anecdotes masquerading as a bold new trend.

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Compromising Positions

Article by Kathleen Collins, published in 2003; filed under Broadcast; tagged battle of the sexes, design, gendered space, home decorating, tv.

Gender by design on <em>Merge</em> and <em>Mix It Up</em>

Mass media, particularly so-called family television, from Bewitched to Everybody Loves Raymond, has long portrayed the home as women’s domain, an ultra-feminized realm in which housewives bustle and cluck while their hapless husbands do little more than hand out spending money and retreat to the most masculine part of the house: the study, or their favorite chair. There’s no denying the cult of the man’s chair in TV history: Those who knew Archie Bunker knew never to sit in his chair.

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