The Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC will have an exhibition throughout the summer on Buckminster Fuller. [DesignInfo]

Entitled “Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe,” the exhibition will be “the first major American exhibition in decades devoted to the visionary mind and work of Buckminster Fuller, and the most inclusive show to date of Fuller’s work.” The exhibit will be on view from June 26 through Sept. 21, 2008.

Starting as he did from the universe and ending up with visual-spatial models with which to ponder universal philosophical problems in the here and now, it is not surprising that Fuller has had a tremendous impact on the visual arts and architecture. His sensibilities and modes of working were deeply aesthetic and many of his closest friends and supporters were artists. Today, his lessons take on an even greater relevance. Fuller’s concepts are ripe for reexamination by artists, architects, designers, scientists, and poets. 

Also: Noisy Decent Graphics points to Fuller’s precursor to Twitter: the Dymaxion Chronofile. 

The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fuller’s attempt to document his life as fully as possible. He created a very large scrapbook in which he documented his life every 15 minutes from 1915 to 1983. The scrapbook contains copies of all correspondence, bills, notes, sketches, and clippings from newspapers.