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Meet The Booming Design Practice That's Transforming Mexico City
Mexico City–based architect Fernando Romero's most recent project isn't a building, but a scintillating orb made from thousands of custom-cut crystals. Illuminated from within, El Sol, as it's named,...
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Cosmic Couture Is Here With Virgin Galactic Spacesuits By Adidas Y-3
Hollywood often envisions astronauts of the future in bulky, bulbous get-ups—more deep-sea diver than trendsetter—but the new design by Adidas Y-3 for Virgin Galactic looks instead to the sleek, fitted...
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These Groovy Carpets Are Made By Piping Foam Out Of Huge Syringes
Ward van Gemert and Adriaan van der Ploeg of the Rotterdam-based studio Nightstop view their Showdown series as experiments in color and pattern. But they're also experiments in process: unlike...
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Affordable, American-Made Design Is Here
A steady influx of international brands in the United States is touting affordable, good-quality, stylish design—and American consumers seem hungry for more. Japanese brand Muji recently built an...
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This Brand Identity Spins Like A Slot Machine To Create Countless Permutations
Keeping pace with digital technology's constant evolution is no easy feat. For brands that need to ensure their visual identity reads consistently on desktop, mobile, social media, and whatever...
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A Shimmering Sculpture Based On Data From The 2011 Tsunami
The gravity-defying rope sculptures of Janet Echelman are nothing short of awe inducing. Hovering gracefully in the sky while weighing upwards of one ton, they're engineering marvels as much as...
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Water-Repellent Umbrella Shakes Dry In Seconds
A handful of companies have the ever-shrinking umbrella game on lock, but what good is something small enough to stow in your bag if it's soaked? Kazuyo Koike devised a genius solution: Make the fabric...
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A Bold Experiment In Building Homes The Middle Class Can Afford
Sandwiched between a nondescript duplex and industrial warehouse in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans, a modern, two-story home stands out from its neighbors thanks to a slender profile,...
View ArticleNext In Fancy Office Amenities? A Private James Turrell Sculpture
As competition to hire the best talent heats up, companies are hoping inventive design will help lure employees to their offices. Lounges, recreation areas, and flexible workspaces have become...
View ArticleIkea's Latest Hack? Customizable Furniture In The Form Of A Coloring Book
Whether you call them lighthearted anxiety-relieving tools or regressive escapes from reality, coloring books for adults have become a full-fledged craze (and lucrative market for print publishers).Now...
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The Ultimate Furniture For Tiny Apartments And Nomadic Living
The perpetual conundrum of apartment dwellers is how to shoehorn furniture into tiny spaces. But maybe we're all doing it wrong—perhaps it's about thinking of furniture as a space in and of itself,...
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Nike's Tech Knit Gets Rid Of Ugly Mesh Panels For Seamless, Breathable...
A lot of workout gear incorporates a busy medley of fabrics in the name of "breathability." But why does buying a shirt that won't get drenched in sweat have to involve tacky mesh that makes you look...
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The Berkeley Art Museum Gets A Pristine New Home Inside A 1930s Printing Press
Old industrial buildings are blessed with many of the most desirable traits of contemporary museums: soaring ceilings, ethereal natural light, and ample unobstructed floor space. In turning a printing...
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Celebrate Avant-Garde Russian Architecture With This Wood Desk Set
Avant-garde architectural thought enjoyed a heyday in 1920s and '30s Russia. The Constructivist buildings of the era embodied a functionalist philosophy emboldened by Soviet Socialist propaganda that...
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Tom Dixon's Creativity Secret? Perpetual Dissatisfaction
Tom Dixon is one of the most prolific and exciting designers working today. Consider some of his recent work: The self-taught British designer has created scent diffusers that distill the aromas of...
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Design Startup Kwambio Wants To 3-D Print Your Next Heirloom
"We have no inventory," Chad Phillips, the creative director of Kwambio, says. For an ordinary design retailer, this might seem like a huge problem: How can you sell...nothing? But for a company that...
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The Most Beautiful Dog Houses Come From This South Korean Company
Architecture for dogs is certainly a thing. And while getting a slick modern house is out of reach for most of us, it's more attainable for our (admittedly spoiled) pets.The Korean brand Bad Marlon has...
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Flood-Proof Hydraulic House Lifts Itself Off The Ground
Catastrophic weather events were once rarities, but as the effects of climate change start rippling across the world, extreme scenarios—like storm surges—could become more routine.Floods, in...
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This Is Not A Cube: 3 Designers Reimagine Architecture's Most Basic Shape
The cube is the one of the most basic volumes out there. It's something we instantly understand as a space, and a building block that can be used to create more complex structures. Chamber, a design...
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How Allied Works Is Rebelling In The Age Of Vapid Architecture
Allied Works Architecture—a firm with offices in Portland and New York—has earned a reputation for remarkably evocative, poetic buildings infused with inventive materials, textures, and forms. For...
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