The decision by the graphic-design team, led by Pentagram's Eddie Opara, to keep the founders' names rather than blowing up "design" or "Smithsonian" feels like a new peace with the museum's roots, its historical collections, and its glorious mansion.
Mr. Bartlett, among the first to show blown-up houndstooth, a Trigere signature, designed the fabric himself.
Amid blown-up sketches of Roy Halston's signature designs, a team of 120 designers, executives and patternmakers is working to put the pizazz back into the brand that faded along with discotheques.
However, this would have blown up the design to include multiple trial arms and large numbers of practices and patients, and turn it into an unfeasible experiment.
But many of these bombs did not blow up as designed.
By blowing up the circuit design into a large format and translating it into the medium of embroidery, Muñoz looks at the circuit's aesthetic and functional qualities.
Custom, short-run gear like this is blowing up — even mad designs (like these) are going to find buyers (like me).
Flowers are one of Mr. Surls's current primary motifs, and he arranges, them, blown up like Mr. Henderson's design objects, carved from wood and attached to bronze armatures, in configurations that feel blandly decorative rather than mysterious, intriguing or ingenious.
"But you might have people asking to hire you after your book cover design blows up on Twitter". The rising importance of social media has perhaps most extensively affected the digital environment where today's artists make their home.
This desolate stretch of land was where the weapons casings were tested to destruction: blown up in curious buildings designed to contain the blast, known as "pagodas'.
The financial treasures they were purveying were not gifts at all; they were actually a new generation of dirty bombs designed blow up the foundations of the world's financial institutions.
