Furniture is sometimes at its best design-wise when it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Case in point: Alan Siegel’s irreverent Tongue Chair, designed in 1981. With its seat transformed into a wide-open mouth and a bright pink tongue playfully poking out, the chair turns an everyday piece of furniture into a a little piece of surrealist theater. The chair’s ‘face illusion’ is completed by a back support that forms a human nose, while two eyes can be seen along the curved upper back and armrest that continues to form the chairs front legs. Continue reading Eye On Design: Alan Siegel’s Tongue Chair→
Helping children speak clearly is important for their confidence and communication. Many children experience speech challenges that can be improved by practicing targeted movements with their lips, tongue, and jaw. The top 5 oral motor exercises are proven strategies to help strengthen and coordinate these muscles for better speech clarity. Continue reading Top 5 Oral Motor Exercises to Improve Speech Clarity in Children→
You have to be observant, but if you bother to look up from your phone, or pay special attention to your surroundings, you can spot relief sculptures of the face of French street artist Gregos adorning the facades of buildings and other random objects at intervals all along 14th Street (and other locations in the east village) in Manhattan. Continue reading The Faces of 14th Street→
I spotted this hilariously huge model of a set of teeth and gums as part of the Healthyville Children’s Wellness exhibit, in the basement of the Museum of Chinese in America, which is on Lafayette Street, a few blocks North of Canal Street, in Chinatown.
Here’s another one of #TheNewAllen project murals, this one being located on the west side of Allen just above Delancey Street. This one is a collaboration between two street artists, Patch Whisky and Ghost Beard, who have worked together previously on murals in other US cities.
