Do you know anyone who hasn’t read a magazine in his/her life? If yes, too bad!… Magazines are part of our daily lives. Here are my picks of the best 51 smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most influential, most necessary, most important, most essential, etc. magazines:

2. New Yorker - “…has remained a beacon of intellectual clarity and incisive reporting to over-educated bourgeoisie far beyond the borders of Manhattan…” …

With its peerless architectural design, the Eighty South Street tower stands conspicuous against the skyline of New York City. This 835-foot-tall residential building houses just ten ultra-exclusive townhouse condominiums, with a starting bid for each unit at US$ 29 million. Each townhouse, contained within its own individual cube with roughly 10,000 square feet of floor space and containing four stories, is accompanied by a large private garden outside and a private elevator within. Moreover, convenience is paramount, with concierge services and amenities made available round the clock. …

Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and North Hertfordshire Homes, in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects, are delighted to promote “Tomorrow’s Garden City: A Sustainable Approach to Modern Living”. …

Over 400 submissions from 50 states and 12 foreign countries poured in for the 2007 Design Awards, sponsored by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects. …

This is an innovative idea from Ian Hart for a Mustang billboard campaign. According to Hart the billboards are “constructed from GE Lexan EXL semi-transparent resin, the billboard accurately blurs the scene behind it regardless of day, weather or season.” …

Situated in an area of downtown Los Angeles, California fast becoming one of the largest homeless populations in the country, Skid Row Housing’s 43,000 sf Rainbow Apartments examines the role of creating a space of transformation within an extreme socioeconomic and urban context. …

Luxury hotelier Four Seasons has opened its 74th property world wide—this one on Koh Samui island in Thailand. Featuring 60 villas surrounded by 88 pools, Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, Thailand is a remote waterfront retreat, built into the landscape of the Laem Yai peninsula, and invisible from the sea. Four Seasons also has resorts in Chiang Mai and in the Golden Triangle—the meeting point of Thailand, Laos, and Burma. …

The clock’s design is influenced by the natural and urban surroundings of Vancouver and Whistler. At left, the design team’s initial concept sketch. At right, Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan with the real thing.
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The Sessions Color Calculator is an interactive color wheel that helps designers select HTML, RGB, or CMYK colors and identifies color harmonies and schemes. Our Color Wheel works faster than any other color wheel or html color chart.
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Household appliance makers are always looking for ways to make their products and brands look unique. New colors and decorative trends in glass ceramic cooktops offer innovative solutions.

Colors convey emotions and values. They can give a product an exclusive look and influence a consumer’s buying behavior much like a compass that guides them on how they should feel. For this reason, being able to determine the future trends in paint jobs three to six years from now, already ranks as an important objective for experts in the automotive industry who design cars. …

The sixth annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show, returning to New York City’s Pier 94 March 8-11, 2007, will feature the best in home products from nearly 300 companies. The annual four-day Show open to the public Friday to Sunday with an interior design trade and VIP consumer preview on Thursday comprises more than 110,000 square feet of display space, and is shopped by designers and consumers alike for the latest in design directions. …