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The Sweet Story Behind These Classic Shape-Shifting Shelves
The venerated Italian designer Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) is known for elegant creations infused with a bit of wit and a healthy respect for common objects. For example the Mezzadro stool, one of...
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18,000 Modular Pieces Snap Together To Create This Ethereal House
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and for Sung Jang, an industrial designer and professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, it's the subject of his research on why we perceive certain...
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Take A Look At The World's Best Tiny Houses
With rising rents, a short supply of housing, and more people flocking to cities, it's no wonder that micro-dwellings have become a zeitgeisty solution for modern living.In Big Little House (Routledge,...
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British Brand Wants To Revolutionize Fashion By Turning You Into The Designer
When you get a new shirt or pair of pants, the process is typically the same. Browse your favorite online or brick-and-mortar store, hem and haw over how it makes you look (great, of course!), add to...
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Soak Up The Sun In A Beach Chair That Riffs On A Rietveld Classic
In their Einhoven furniture company Mal, Bob Copray, and Niels Wildenberg revisit icons of the past and place them in a new context for today.Case in point: the Clap beach lounge, which riffs on Gerrit...
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How Did Camper's Ugly Shoes Become So Iconic?
Since Lorenzo Fluxà Rosselló founded the Spanish shoe brand Camper in 1975, it has become a global design powerhouse with inventive retail spaces, bold advertising campaigns, and big-name...
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A Brutalist Playground Reimagined For The 21st Century
The playgrounds of today, with their plastic jungle gyms and foam mats, are a far cry from designs built during the days of fewer regulations and personal injury lawsuits. Take the playgrounds...
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Google's Latest Ambition? Fix Broken Cities
Google has conquered search, email, document-sharing, maps, and more (fashion, of course, remains a work in progress). Now, it's turning its eye to cities. The New York Times reports that Google is...
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How Pyrex Transformed The Way We Cook
The story of how the kitchenware brand Pyrex first entered America's kitchens reads like a tall tale. The saga began in 1913 when Corning scientists were investigating new applications for the...
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Why British Designer Jasper Morrison Nixed His Drawing Board 15 Years Ago
Over the course of his 35-year career, the brilliant British designer Jasper Morrison has created everything from alarm clocks to furniture and kitchenware and has collaborated with a number of brands...
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MIT Robotics Grad Develops Furniture That Pulls A Disappearing Act
Designing chairs and tables isn't exactly rocket science, but Jessica Banks has the creds to make you think that's the case. After earning a master's degree from MIT, where she was in the Humanoid...
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Matali Crasset's New Minimalist Wood Designs Benefit A Good Cause
For her latest collection, the French design doyenne Matali Crasset took a hyperlocal approach with a social message. If you must get your retail fix, why not feel good about who benefits from the...
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Indulge In '90s Nostalgia With These Susan Kare Playing Cards
Before there was Candy Crush, Bejeweled, and Angry Birds, Solitaire was the game of choice for most non-gamers. In fact, Microsoft has included the program with every Windows operating system since...
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Bruno Munari Will Make You Fall In Love With Books All Over Again
With some books, reading on a screen is virtually the same as on paper. Swipe or turn a page and you'll see words organized into sentences organized into paragraphs organized into chapters. Not so with...
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Charles Correa, One of India's Greatest Architects, Dies At 84
The Mumbai-based architect Charles Correa has passed away according to a BBC report. He was 84.Born in Mumbai in 1930, Correa was a champion of a vernacular, regional brand of architecture whose...
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MoMA Adds The Rainbow Flag To Its Collection
Today the Museum of Modern Art announced that it brought the Rainbow Flag, a key emblem of gay rights, into its collection. "We're proud the MoMA collection now includes this powerful design milestone,...
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The Humble Candlestick Reinvented 25 Different Ways
Apart from being an effective mood setter, candles are pretty superfluous in the modern era. As objects to behold, though, candlesticks present an opportunity for designers to flex their creative...
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How Architect David Adjaye Explores Design At A Human Scale
Though architect David Adjaye earned his stripes designing masterful structures, he has turned his eye to a more intimate scale in recent years, creating furniture and now fabrics. In his first foray...
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How Jonathan Olivares Is Bringing Architectural Manufacturing To The...
"Innovation is a dangerous term," says the Los Angeles–based designer Jonathan Olivares. "It's often mistaken for what's new. Charles Eames said, 'Innovate as a last resort.' I hope what we're doing...
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What 10 Dieter Rams Products Reveal About The Principles Of Good Design
The Paris gallery Espace 24b recently concluded the first retrospective in France of the venerated German designer Dieter Rams. Called Less but Better—taken from one of Rams's 10 principles of good...
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