Author: Marcus Trimble

World of Change – NASA’s study of the planet in flux. Dubai grows rapidly, forests grow slowly and the marshlands of Iraq are regenerated following the demolition of the dykes and canals that had been draining the region.

The largest ever Bauhaus retrospective,“Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model” has opened at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, 90 years after the institution’s founding.  Spiegel Online

Heinz Edelmann, the graphic designer and illustrator who created the comically hallucinogenic animated Beatles film “Yellow Submarine,” has died at the age of 75.  NYT

2G N.50 Sou Fujimoto is now available and would make a worthy addition to your library.

Prada’s Transformer underwent it’s final flip this week from the rectangular plane of the  movie theatre to the cruciform plane for contemporary art.  via IHT

The 2009 Stirling Prize shortlist includes some unexpected choices. bdonline