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MSU student dies in hit-and-run accident in Detroit

Published 11/06      5 comments
By Kate Jacobson

A 19-year-old MSU student was killed Thursday night after after a Red Wings hockey game in Detroit, police said. Read more »


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Mexican folk band comes to MSU

Published 11/05      No comments
By Ian Johnson

A student collaboration with one of the most respected Mexican bands in the world hit the Music Building Auditorium stage Thursday night, and not only exposed audience members to Mexican folk music, but musical styles from around the world. Read more »

Tech business materializes from E.L. center

Published 11/05      No comments
By David Barker

Despite Michigan’s troubled economic environment, Enliven Software became the first tech startup to emerge from East Lansing’s Technology Innovation Center (TIC). Read more »


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  • Family Planning


    By PILAR VILADAS

    The extended family is a wonderful thing, but so is privacy. It’s not easy to balance the two when designing a house, particularly if you don’t have the land or budget, or both, to build a compound. But with ingenuity and a little luck, even a modest house on a small site can accommodate three generations with breathing room to spare.

  • Watch This Space


    By MONICA KHEMSUROV

    For Faye Toogood, September’s London Design Festival was a coming-out party of sorts. After spending nearly a decade styling for the British magazine The World of Interiors and developing her signature raw-meets-refined look, she started quietly building her own full-service creative studio in 2008, remaining under the radar despite redesigning Dover Street Market’s shoe department and creating fanciful window displays for Liberty. But following two buzzed-about installations that she curated at the London festival and her high-profile work for Tom Dixon — which includes a catalog and a new London showroom — the design world is beginning to take notice of this multitalented 32-year-old. “There aren’t many stylists who have decided to transcend disciplines,” says Toogood, who studied fine art and art history. “It’s been a natural course for me.” MONICA KHEMSUROV.

  • King of the Playground


    By JILL SINGER

    When you think about it, the Rockwell Group has been in the business of playgrounds for years, creating a showy interior for a glamorous jeweler, a JetBlue terminal and Nobu restaurants from New York to Dubai. So the Imagination Playground at Burling Slip, which opens next summer in a former parking lot near South Street Seaport, is a logical next step. The peanut-shaped park is inspired by midcentury adventure playgrounds, where children used found objects and postwar debris. It features sand and water, Playground Associates to oversee the action, and more than 350 loose parts, including wheelbarrows, pool noodles and weather- and germ-resistant foam blocks (above, in Brooklyn). David Rockwell, the founder and C.E.O., has created a standard kit that can be deployed cheaply in open spaces across the country, but at Burling Slip he pays homage to its nautical past with pulleys, masts and periscope-like tubes through which children can talk from opposite ends of the park. “Each place encourages a kind of cooperative, self-directed fantasy play,” he says. “Or you can just run around like a maniac.” [?][?][?] JILL SINGER.

  • Just My Size


    HAPPY HOME From Left: silhouette lamp by robert kuo for Mcguire, $3,791. Go to mcguirefurniture.com. cindy Lamp by ferruccio laviani for kartell,.

  • The New Collectibles


    By ANDREAS KOKKINO

    SWEET DREAMS Worried that your baby’s bed won’t match your midcentury modern décor? The Nest Collection bassinet, by Scott Wilson for Offi, is a sleek walnut-veneered design with a chrome base. $999. Go to minijake.com.

  • Cool for School


    By SAM LUBELL

    As you drive past downtown Los Angeles on the 101 freeway, one building grabs your attention, its concrete and steel tower swooping and twisting like a roller coaster. A multitiered group of oversize geometric structures arranged around concrete and grass courtyards, this complex is not, in fact, an amusement park. It’s the new Central Los Angeles High School No. 9, which opened in September. The building, designed by the edgy Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au, tosses aside any preconceived notion of what a school should look like.

  • Mini-Mies (and Friends)


    By MONICA KHEMSUROV

    Now that more children are growing up with exquisite — if expensive — taste, the selection of minimodern classics keeps growing. Indeed, when Modernists preached that design should be accessible to all, they meant children, too. The Eameses created plywood elephants and kiddie stools, and designers like Verner Panton considered their furnishings equally viable at pint-size. Invest in these. MONICA KHEMSUROV.

  • Family Planning


    By PILAR VILADAS

  • Wild Thing


    Bring out the beast — in a good way.

  • Short Orderers


    By ALEXANDRA JACOBS

    Many moons ago I watched aghast as my young niece and nephew cheerfully masticated a lunch of French fries and ketchup during a family ski vacation in Utah. “How can they be allowed to eat like that?” I hissed sotto voce to my husband, who nodded in smug sympathy.

  • The Best-Dwessed List


    By ALEX KUCZYNSKI

    Before I had children, I had this delusional idea that their clothes would cost less than grown-up clothes. The proportionately smaller the outfit, the proportionately less expensive. Plus, they would be self-reliant little creatures, like Keebler elves, cozying themselves away in a tree somewhere during the day and knitting their own stocking caps.

  • Bright Young Thing Emily Pilloton


    By ALIX BROWNE

    If the initiatives that Project H Design has taken on seem largely geared toward young people — Learning Landscape playgrounds and sustainable food programs for public schools, to name but two — it may have something to do with the fact that Emily Pilloton, the founder of the not even two-year-old humanitarian organization, is herself only 27. With the help of nine volunteer-driven cells from Austin, Tex., to Johannesburg, Pilloton, who started the company with a laptop and $1,000 while living at home with her parents, aims to create local design solutions and apply them globally. (The playgrounds, for example, were conceived in Uganda and have since been installed in North Carolina and the Dominican Republic.) Pilloton is also the author of the just-released book “Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People” (Metropolis Books), which gives well-deserved shout-outs to everything from the Hippo Water Roller (a portable vessel that can carry a week’s worth of water for a family of seven) and Braille-based Lego-style building blocks to D.I.Y. soccer balls (left) and SkySails (which are large enough to help propel cargo ships). “If it’s any consolation,” she insists, “I’ve aged a lot over the last year.” [?][?][?] ALIX BROWNE.

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Senior linebacker Brandon Denson holds up the Paul Bunyan Trophy after the Spartans defeated Michigan in overtime 26-20 Saturday afternoon at Spartan Stadium.

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