Detroiter's design gets attention from the NYT

Detroiter and architect Eddy Sykes, though it doesn't say he's a Detroiter in the article, is spotlighted by a New York Times design blog.

Excerpt:

Eddy Sykes is an architect by training. But he’s also a jack-of-all-trades, a cross between a mad scientist and a garage tinkerer. In “Yakuza Lou,” an installation that is on view until the end of February at Materials+Applications — an outdoor nonprofit space in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles — Sykes pulls out all the stops. In exploring a new type of surface manipulation with a firm footing in real-world materials and construction methods, Sykes began with something as pedestrian as a mailbox reflector: when deconstructed, it reveals a complex geometry of truncated pyramids and faceted jewel-like textures.

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