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Panoramic of the recent House Industries Eames Gallery Exhibition celebrating the release of Eames Century Modern. Those supersized ply letterforms look fantastic.

To celebrate the release of the Eames Century Modern font collection, the mighty House Industries are holding a prizedraw for the chance to win a tour of the Eames House led by Eames Demetrios and Lucia Atwood, grandson and granddaughter of Charles and Ray Eames. All you need to do is register at House Industries.

Discover and Lifework, two themed blogs from iconic furniture manufacturer Herman Miller.

“Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas.”

Charles Eames

As part of their Select range, Herman Miller have released a set of limited edition Eames inspired spinning tops. Made from walnut, they’re available until April 2010.

Eames Demitrios’ 2007 TED talk on his grandparents is finally available online. It’s a fantastic insight into the creative process of Charles and Ray Eames and includes some rarely seen film and archival footage.

James Provost’s illustrated collection of mid-century modern furniture makes for a fantastic poster. Order one here.

Charles and Ray Eames’ film ‘A Communications Primer‘ is available to view and download as part of the Internet Archive’s Prelinger collection. Also worth watching for a glimpse of Eames designed furniture are the three films which make up ‘American Look‘, a film on 1950’s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design.

• Vintage footage made by the Eames Office for Herman Miller on the manufacturing process behind the Eames Shell Chair via Core77
• Designing Social Patterns – Great companion resource to the forthcoming book Designing Social Interfaces:
  Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone.
• Stokemonkey – Electric hybrid drive for longtails and cargo bikes from Cleverchimp

Explore over 3,500 works of art including six Charles and Ray Eames pieces from San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art collection using their virtual browsing tool ‘ArtScope‘. Nice unobtrusive flash interface, related search features plus uses Amazon’s S3 for data services.

Following the release of the limited edition series ‘Eames Elephant’ to celebrate Charles Eames’ 100th birthday, Vitra are now producing a polypropylene version aimed at the group for which it was originally intended by Charles and Ray Eames; children. Designed in 1945 as part of their experiments with three-dimensional plywood, the complex fabrication methods required meant that only two prototypes were made. The limited edition run was made available in natural wood or red-stained maple version. The new version which should be available in January will come in five colours: red, white, lime, ice grey and bright pink.