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PUBLIC ARTIST Isabella Lockett doesn’t look like an urban warrior in her designer hat and pink suede skirt.

PUBLIC ARTIST Isabella Lockett doesn’t look like an urban warrior in her designer hat and pink suede skirt.

Arik Levy, along with perhaps Marc Newson, is among those designers that all other designers envy (at least secretly). He flits between mass-market and high art, designing everything from cell phones to giant, one-off sculptures. But he takes both equally seriously--and he argues that any object can be transformed into something magical: "I try to evoke memories of other objects, and that lets a ...

Ron Bell has been a cinematographer for 25 years, but in his spare time he likes to play with bones. And copper. And aluminum. And glass. What does he do with all these components? Why, he constructs “osteomechanic” sculptures, of course! If I had a fancy office to call my own, complete with a ginormous oak desk, I would adorn that desk with one of Ron Bell’s sculptures. Probably one that has a bovine-looking skull with wires crawling in and out of its eye sockets. So when clients came into my