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10 most popular articles of the last seven days based only on single article views - (brief and full content view not included) a designboom.com publication January 2012, 07 you may want to submit a design mail@designboom.com --- # 1 designers' new year's resolutions 2012 published 12.31.11 designboom asked contemporary designers, architects, and artists to tell us their new year's resolutions for 2012... and about how well they did at keeping those from the past year! read more viewed 16845 times --- # 2 viktor hertz: honest logos published 01.04.12 in the wake of 'revealing the truth' behind each company, the re-appropriated logos also give us a chance to reflect on our own personal habits of consumption. read more viewed 15104 times --- # 3 vaumm arkitektura: basque culinary center published 01.02.12 the exterior of this gastronomic research and training facility resembles a stack of dish plates, conjuring images of the culinary activities occurring inside to passersby. read more viewed 10389 times --- # 4 terry & terry architecture: bal house published 01.05.12 featuring a glass-clad chasm between two floating volumes, the open and accessible design integrates the living space with the rear outdoor garden. read more viewed 10380 times --- # 5 mladen penev: animal haircuts for braun published 01.06.12 the series of images depicts a cat, bird, squirrel and monkey sporting unusual hairdos such as a mohawk, designs shaved into fur, and even a fu manchu mustache. read more viewed 10364 times --- # 6 BmasC arquitectos: huete house published 01.03.12 using the site's granite formation as the catalyst of the design, the house sits on the boundary between the mountains and the village in a 'domestication of the last stones of the hillside'.   read more viewed 10320 times --- # 7 KAZUHIKO NAMBA+KAI WORKSHOP: boxhouse 140 published 01.02.12 conceived as one open room with a porous layout, the small compact house is an exercise in simple and pragmatic design. read more viewed 9743 times --- # 8 new works by li wei published 12.31.11 in his most recent series, the arists adopts his now-famous gravity defying poses, commenting on landscape, religion and love using only performance art and photography. read more viewed 9519 times --- # 9 atelier tekuto: crystal brick II published 01.04.12 exploring one of le corbusier's 'five points of architecture', the design creates a non-supporting 'free facade' through a system of glass blocks, steel flat bars, and ALC panels.  read more viewed 9166 times --- # 10 carrie m. becker: barbie trashes her dreamhouse published 01.04.12 littered with old magazines, newspapers, dirty dishes, and cardboard boxes full to the brim, the 1/6th scale models capture the doll's miniature world as a living environment of a hoarder. read more viewed 9155 times

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