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Just what the world needs: another blog from another self-important design guru. Brand66 is a design discussion presented by — me, Michael Rylander. Over the years, I've been lucky enough to work on some the world's great brands, like Apple, Sony, BMW, Fortune, and American Express.

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Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to last week 

If you can make it to Sperone Westwater gallery in NYC’s lower east side, treat yourself to this display of all things marble. I previously covered Fabio Viale’s amazing sculptures, but to see his life-sized tires in person is amazing. Tom Sachs’s Brute transforms an ordinary lightweight object to the extraordinary through the medium of marble. Most perplexing was Barry X. Ball’s Purity, a bust made of onyx in which you can see a face beneath the stone veil.