Closing the Gap Activity — Wingaru
Our Closing the Gap activity is a free resource for primary school teachers to promote discussions on the issues surrounding National Closing the Gap Day. By facilitating a role playing activity students will gain a greater understanding of the importance of the commitments made by the Australian Go
Light from Above
When I went to design school and studied Gothic architecture I learned that the greatest expression of this style were the churches. Along with that I learned that they were much more than religious buildings but also the expressions of the lives of those who built them. Today, I see them as works of art, representations of other people's cultures and places where people feel at peace. View of the inside - note the light from the stained windows reflected on the columns One of the things that I loved the most at the National Cathedral in DC was the…
Kate Middleton’s Hold Still photobook is a bestseller
The Duchess of Cambridge, 39, revealed she has hidden a copy of the book, which has already become a bestseller, for readers to 'find and leave for someone else'.
An emblem of Dutch diversity | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
With its overlapping pattern of abstracted florals and its animated orange circular motif, this exhibition poster designed by artist Johan Thorn Prikker (b.1868-1932) is a true icon of the Nieuwe Kunst (Art Nouveau) style in Holland. Created for an exhibition of Dutch art at the Kaiser-Wilhelm museum in Krefeld, Germany, Thorn Prikker employed several signifiers
A Modern Dollhouse….now on eBay
A couple of weeks ago I was looking through some old dollhouse stuff I had from when I was trying to decide how to build my daughter's dollhouse, and I found this article from Woman's Day magazine dated October 1976. (yeah, I have a hard time throwing stuff away). This dollhouse was designed by Ira Grandberg, A.I.A., and at the time this article was published, it was being presented to the Museum of the City of New York to become a part of their famous dollhouse collection. The roof and the bedroom wing lifts off for easier play. The article…
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Gebundene Ausgabe von Marlon James, Penguin Putnam, 9781594486005
Winner of the Booker Prize One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s, from the author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines brilliant storytelling with his unrivaled skills of characterization and meticulous eye for detail to forge an enthralling…
