Design

Six Years Later, Reunion Tower Observation Deck to Reopen With a New Look

Reunion Tower will finally be reopening "soon," with a slew of renovations planned to make it bigger and glossier. Judy Pesek, a partner at the design firm responsible for the project, laid out the planned renovations to a crowd gathered on the tower's observation deck. The renovations will include ... More >>

A Better Way on the Trinity Highway

Let's build a road on the river, not a wall.

Bust Out the D-Shaped Cake: Dallas' Logo Turns 40 This Year

A lot of things have changed in Dallas in the past 40 years -- just look at the skyline or Uptown or the exploding suburbs -- but not everything. I was reminded of that this morning by the city's Facebook page. There, spokesman Frank Librio posted a brief history of the emblem you see above. "I ma ... More >>

Well, If Architectural Digest Thinks Calatrava Bridge Is a "Parabolic Pylon" of Virtue ...

​I don't want to suggest that my wife is a sharp stick in the eye, but from time to time she does like to "point things out." To me. So this morning when I reached for the place on the bedstead where I had neatly and carefully laid out my trousers for the day, what should I find but a copy of the ... More >>

The Observer is Looking for an Art Director

This is the job posting. Tell your friends. But only the good ones. The Dallas Observer has an immediate opening for an experienced editorial art director. The art director is responsible for the overall design quality and integrity of the publication. He/she must be able to conceptualize and produ ... More >>

Bless Us, Everyone

St. Vincent Releases Strange Mercy Track List and Cover Art, Announces Kessler Theater Gig

Tina TyrellNew St. Vincent press photos day! Yay!​Back in early June, we passed along the word that Dallas native Annie Clark, known to most by her stage name of St. Vincent, had set a September 13 release date for her highly anticipated third LP, the locally recorded, John Congleton-produced Stra ... More >>

Steady Beauty

When Will They Begin to Re:Vision Dallas? Depends On When City Creates That "Sustainable Design District" Downtown.

If you thought they'd forgotten to build this behind Dallas City Hall, you'd be wrong.​It's been an awful long time since last we wrote about John Greenan and Brent Brown's plans to build that green, sustainable building of tomorrow directly behind Dallas City Hall. But a few days ago, a piece wri ... More >>

Poster of the Week: A.Dd Album Release Party at The Loft on Friday Night

​ DJ Sober does it again.

Shawn Todd to Convert Old Downtown Dallas Post Office Into "Modern Luxury Living"

Federal Judiciary CenterSome facts about the post office and court house: "Completed in 1930. Supervising Architect: James A. Wetmore."​High on the top of my list of favorite downtown buildings is the old U.S. Post Office and Courthouse at 400 N. Ervay. But the building, built in '30, has gone unu ... More >>

Little Picassos

Poster of the Week: The Orphanage Benefit at The Double Wide on Saturday

​ It's a fairly simple design. But, more than that, it's a great cause.

Lone Star Brushstrokes

Listomania: 10 Font and Typography Music Jokes

Via BuzzfeedThe brilliant inspiration. ​Of all the Internet jokes on all the sites around the world, typography and font puns really, truly have to be some of the geekiest. And that's why when we came across Buzzfeed's list of font and typography puns -- specifically this attached "I shot the seri ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Doug Burr and Birds & Batteries at Good Records on Saturday

​ We've said it once, we've said it a thousand times: You don't need a re-appropriated image to make a show poster that sings.

Poster Of The Week: Big J, Ocelot, Tommy Lee Jonez & Fizzy Dino Pop, Friday March 12 at The Basement at Plush

​Maybe I'm still high on the release of the new TRON Legacy trailer earlier this week, but our Poster Of The Week definitely conjures images of Light Cycles and Recognizers in my head.

Poster Of The Week: Well, Not Really. But A Pretty Cool Announcement, We Think!

​No winner this week. Sorry, folks.I just got word from POTW Captain and Observer art director Alex Flores that this week's submissions were rather... um, how can I put this lightly... meager. So, instead of simply picking a poster for the sake of announcing a winner, we're gonna simply gonna pull ... More >>

Brent Brown, Who Rebuilt Congo Street, Will Head Dallas CityDesign Studio in City Hall

Brandon ThibodeauxBrent Brown​Couple of weeks back we debuted the Dallas Urban Design Studio, a Trinity Trust-funded endeavor that'll get its own office in Dallas City Hall in order to "elevate the design consciousness and culture of Dallas, while working to balance social, economic, environmental ... More >>

Does This Bus Go to the Calatrava Bridge?

​A month ago today we told you about The Trinity Trust's "Suspense is Building" campaign, which is intended to get the locals hot and bothered for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in advance of Santiago Calatrava's $150-a-ticket victory toddle on September 25. I finally saw one of the billboards this ... More >>

Corn Mo Announces More Album Details, Is Great At Karaoke

We'd buy it just for the cover art.​Last we heard, Corn Mo and .357 Lover's upcoming full-length, Diorama of the Golden Lion, was set for a late August release. Well, this week, an official update: The album from the operatic glam-rocker will see a September 29 release. A little bit of a push-back ... More >>

Dream Weaver: City Bringing In "The Man Who Built Vancouver" to Talk West Dallas

Larry Beasley​Speaking of the Trinity River Corridor Project ... When last we saw Larry Beasley, "the man who built Vancouver," he was among a handful of urban planners imported to teach the Dallas City Council a thing or three during a daylong gab session at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in ... More >>

The Holy Trinity Bridge

From The Trinity Trust's brand-new Web site devoted to selling Dallas on the Calatrava Bridge​As promised, The Trinity Trust today debuted its new campaign to build interest in the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, and there's an accompanying Web site: Discover the Trinity. You'll also find a second, jaz ... More >>

Caution: Graphic Images

Fact or Fantasy? You Decide, as Fort Worth Woman Takes on Tyler Perry.

Over in Marshall, a Fort Worth woman named Donna West has taken cross-dressing franchise Tyler Perry to federal court, claiming that Perry used her 1991 play Fantasy of a Black Woman as the basis for his 2005 movie Diary of a Mad Black Woman. West actually filed the suit in May 2007, but the trial's ... More >>

A Grandfather's Stash Reveals the Dallas That Was and Might Have Been

Courtesy Justin Cozart Yesterday, I came across a Flickr page maintained by Justin Cozart, who's been uploading in recent days photos of a Dallas that no longer exists -- as you can tell by the photo of the Baker Hotel above, taken as it was being imploded in June 1980. But not all of Cozart's ph ... More >>

Transforming One Ugly 1980s Office Building, a Single Floor at a Time

Poster Of The Week: Method Entertainment BBQ

Mister Stanley Wouldn't Be Happy, As Couple Attempts to Tear Down the Historic Marcus House

Visual Artist Nevada Hill Creates Badass Album Covers and Posters For Denton Bands

Buckets of Fun

In T3's Popcorn, salty satire; D-FW critics pepper actors with awards

That Jim Schutze is Always Makin' Friends

OK, So This is the Wright Chair After All

More Calatraversity

Eye Candy

It's overpriced, it's gaudy and we have to put it on a credit card. Yep, that Calatrava bridge says Dallas all over.

Gapping the Bridge

Piano Works

The architect Renzo Piano makes high design for our local culture of kitsch

Budgetary Builds

A Monster Hit

Discovery Channel's Steve Watson talks shop

Best Place to Smoke

Sambuca Uptown

Best Place to Get Antique Prints and Cool Old Maps

Beaux Arts

Best Thai Restaurant

Banana Leaf

Best handyman

Tommy Snider

Mean green

Neighbors in Southeast Dallas find that getting their parks fixed is no picnic

For the benefit of Mr. Max

The creator of iconographic '60s art is now an icon himself

Deadbeat update

Vary founders Mica England and Ceslie Armstrong are wanted women. Literally.

Disarming

DTC's Arms and the Man resurrects the comic genius of George Bernard Shaw

Class act

Dallas Theater Center snags four Leon Rabin Awards in inaugural contest

Will act for food

Theater Critics Forum ponders the year's best performances--and Dallas' diminishing stage scene

Forward to the Past

Grapevine Lake project takes aim at the automobile