Collectible Ceramics Designed and Crafted in America Since 1952
Rest In Peace My Dear Sister. I have been interrupted from recording this ongoing stream of consciousness by external events, one being that I must get a Kickstarter project going Continue Reading →
Presenting the worker in resident housing zone Contemporary Capitalism Serves and Limits the Ownership Class A report from PItchbook The Transient Era of Billion Dollar Funds tells of the sudden boom and Continue Reading →
Pathways outside the algorithm open onto alternate worlds. Productivity Assets: The Floating Gull is the first Andersen Design wildlife sculpture designed in the late fifties. The Gull maintained its market appeal throughout Continue Reading →
Contrasting cultural attitudes and receptivity between India and Maine I have an unexpected project to work on this week and I have nothing to lose except my time and energy, and Continue Reading →
Getting the history of Midcentury Design right! Here’s my chance! Rare and only known example of this slip cast form in original ebony-brown glaze, designed and handcrafted by Weston Neil Andersen Continue Reading →
The grassroots fertilizes the mainstream but needs its independence! I recovered boxes from storage filled with the earliest midcentury examples of my parent’s work from the forties and fifties. It Continue Reading →
Centralization vs Decentralization in the Bronze Age In 2004 anthropologist Edward M. Schortman and Patricia Urban published Modeling the Roles of Craft Production in Ancient Political Economies, a research paper discussing trends Continue Reading →
The outgrowth of a lifelong commitment to living a creative work-centered life. Makers have often been at the forefront of revolutions and movements. Ever since the Soviet Revolution, Russia Continue Reading →
I saw a message on my LinkedIn page the other day that said eleven people had searched my profile last week. I clicked on the message. It said all eleven Continue Reading →
Placing the contemporary in the long view of history Jeremy Beck Unsplash I published Luddites, Guilds, and Societies of Correspondence on Medium where I was criticized for including “Andersen Design” in the Continue Reading →