The Amazing Project & Public Design Center have teamed up to raffle off one fine iPod Nano. It only costs a buck to enter, and the proceeds support our efforts to promote and enable truly amazing work. Already have an iPod? Make it a holiday gift. We won’t tell.

The deadline is midnight PST Tuesday November 27th, 2007.

We’ll be sending out our November mailing of The Occasional newsletter, so if you’re not on the list and want the inside scoop, be sure to sign up right away.

For those of you in or around Orlando, FL, don’t miss our dear friend Wheat Wurtzburger’s one night showing of the photo series Faces of Vimi. ViMi is the name given to a diverse neighborhood in Orlando that’s home to several great design studios. Wheat’s images capture some of faces that define the fabric of the area.

The details:
November 16th
5 – 11pm
Orange Studio
1121 North Mills Avenue, Orlando

Somehow we missed this last year, but better now than never: Adam Krause’s photography was featured in American Photography’s Scarlett.

It’s not like she ever really left, but Karrie Jacobs is now back and blogging regularly at KarrieJacobs.com. If you remember, that’s the site we launched back in August of 2006.

Karrie’s blog, The Itinerant Urbanist, was so well received that House & Garden magazine asked her to continue the blog over on their site.

Well, now that the 106-year-old magazine is ceasing to publish in December, their site and resident bloggers, including Karrie, are back at it elsewhere online. I’m sad to see the magazine go, but such is the nature of things.

We’ll be giving her site a new round of design love this winter. I’m looking forward to seeing what Karrie will be up to next.