It’s been a very busy week and I haven’t had a ton of time to devote to my usual twitter searches. I have however learned about a few new things and hope you’ll enjoy what I’m sharing today. A few great Tweets covered companies and designers that were so much fun I decided they deserved their own posts. Those will be out next week.

There are many well informed, creative, and active people using Twitter, and sharing their new discoveries and passions. Thank you all for your insights and updates. Here are a few interesting Tweets that I read, learned from, and loved this week:

@museummodernart “The Ordinary as Object of Desire” – Robert Smith’s review of our “What was Good Design?” exhibition. http://tr.im/nyKN
This is a great article on industrial design in review of “What Was Good Design? MoMA’s Message 1944-56” runs through Nov. 30 at the Museum of Modern Art.

“What is good design?” may not be one of life’s great existential questions, but it ranks high among those that plague modern times. It is at least as old as the Industrial Revolution and the accompanying rise of factories, cheap manufactured goods and urban crowding. These developments created problems and opportunities that city planners, architects and designers have been triumphing or tripping over ever since. The results have ranged from brilliant to tragic, as a casual look at any American city will tell you.

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