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How to Tell the Difference Between Andersen Design Popular Art and Andy Warhol Pop Art
Both used production as an art form and started in the midcentury so how do you tell them apart? How do you tell the difference between Andersen Design Popular Art and Andy Warhol’s Pop Art? Good Question! Let’s see if we can establish some distinctions! First, there is the startup date. Andersen Design established its production…
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Industrial Design, Now and Then: The Andersen Design Journey
Reinventing the online platform as an interactive B to B experience! As young urban New York designers, Weston and Brenda Andersen received an award from Living Magazine for the Egg Vase with Lip Form, Once they started their own production company there was no time for competitions. Andersen Design went where few productions dared to…
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Is the Maine Space Corporation “An Essential Government Function” ?
This is a letter to the editor that I submitted to the Boothbay Register Dear Editor, Americans are aware that our federal constitutional democracy is under threat. State governments lead the resistance to the threat, underscoring the importance of the balance of local and central power. Maine became a Home Rule State in 1969, but…
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Peeling Back the Wrapper on the Narrative
Water, Housing, Education- What is really going on and whose Interests are being served? Photo by Karen Cann on Unsplash A letter titled Admiring the finery, ignoring the supply written by Andy Cozzi, a retired geologist, raised the issue of unusually low water levels of Knickerbocker Lake Finery is easily interpreted as the newly installed cultivated landscape at the Boothbay Center, bought…
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Expanding the Affordable Housing Options
A Letter to the Editor of The Boothbay Register Photo by Roger Starnes Sr on Unsplash Letter to the Editor of Boothbay Register Dear Editor, Recently, there have been two widely publicized housing developments in the region funded with affordable housing funds and celebrated as a great step forward in righting the “underproduction of housing”. Such is…