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Brad Pitt's Housing Nonprofit And Ammunition Among Winners Of National Design...
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2016 National Design Award. This year's batch include Ammunition, the Silicon Valley product design studio best known for...
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400 Projects, 25 Designers: The Secret To Nendo's Astonishing Productivity
"I'm a workaholic," says Oki Sato, principal of the Tokyo-based studio Nendo. "I just keep designing things."Workaholic might be an understatement considering the tremendous output of Sato and his team...
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A Midcentury Modern Pioneer Talks About Working At 100
In the 1940s and '50s, Scandinavian furniture flooded the United States—and one of the designers who left an indelible mark during that era was Jens Risom.The Danish-born practitioner, who turned 100...
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Can Great Design Bring The Boy Scouts Into The 21st Century?
The Boy Scouts of America has had its fair share of troubles in recent years, from abuse allegations to discrimination, which eventually led to a Supreme Court case in 2000. On top of that, the group's...
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How A LGBT Congregation Rethought The Synagogue
Religion is rooted in tradition, and so too is religious architecture. Yet today, architects are experimenting with what it means to build a contemporary space for worship. For Congregation Beit...
View ArticleFollow Our Coverage Of NYC Design Week 2016
NYCxDesign is upon us and for the the next week New York City transforms itself into a festival for design, making, and architecture. We'll be posting snapshots to our Instagram throughout the week and...
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This Flat-Pack Furniture Line Is A Frequent Mover's Best Friend
Moving is the bane of a renter's existence. Shall I count the ways? From negotiating hairpin turns on stairwells to squeezing through narrow doorways and ponying up hundreds of dollars to some man with...
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How America's Most Iconic Design Brand Is Planning Its Next Century
This week, Herman Miller is opening a leviathan flagship store in Manhattan. This sprawling 120,000-square-foot temple to a furniture empire represents an ambitious five-year plan to change the way it...
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The World's Most Iconic Libraries, Reduced To Their Essential Forms
André Chiote, an architect an illustrator based in Portugal, has sketched museums, sports facilities, and other buildings of note from around the world, but libraries in particular get his blood...
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This Is Why The Cult Of Muji Is Taking Off In The U.S.
If it seems like the minimalist aesthetic of Japanese housewares brand Muji is everywhere these days, you have Asako Shimazaki to thank. As president of Muji U.S.A., Shimazaki oversaw the launch of a...
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Ideo's CEO On How To Lead An Organization Creatively
It comes as no surprise that Tim Brown, CEO of the design consultancy Ideo, believes that all organizations should be run creatively. This philosophy has brought Ideo success in both developing new...
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How A 300-Year-Old Religious Sect Is Influencing Young Designers Today
The principles of honesty, utility, and simplicity read like a modernist's credo, but those were the core design values of the Shakers, a radically conservative religious sect from England that settled...
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The Mesmerizing Digital Landscapes Of Yorgo Alexopoulos
For an artist who uses robots to carve marble and 3-D printers to build landscapes, the work of Yorgo Alexopoulos is surprisingly accessible. That's by design. "It's about creating an environment...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's Star Design Firm Goes Analog And Builds A Lifestyle Brand
The state of Alaska conjures up all kinds of associations. For some, it speaks to endless expanses of untrammeled wilderness; to others it's Sarah Palin territory. For the Huna Totem tribe—which is...
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Why Designers Should Be More Like Robin Hood
Max Lamb lives in a material world. On any given day, the London-based designer could be cutting and folding sheets of zinc, like he did for a bar at the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch. He could be sifting...
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The Woman Who Made The 1984 Olympics A Masterpiece Of Design
The world of environmental graphic design owes a great debt to Deborah Sussman (1931–2014), one of the industry's first practitioners.Born in Brooklyn and educated at Bard, Black Mountain College, and...
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15 Designers Cleverly Interpret The Word "Reflect"
Constraints often breed the strongest designs and reveal how people work through creative challenges. For an installation at the New York Design Week show Sight Unseen Offsite, the collective Join...
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Here's A $5K Bar Cart That'll Let You Booze At Work In Stealth
The Swiss furniture company USM has worked with hot-shot mixologists from around NYC to create the ultimate bar carts.Founded in 1961, USM sells a modular system based on a chrome ball joint that...
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How Photography Can Transform Social Justice In America
When protests erupted in Baltimore over Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who died as a result of injuries sustained in police custody last year, a young, self-taught photographer named Devin Allen hit...
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It's Time To Put Buildings On A Diet
Fast food is delicious, easy to come by, cheap, and filling. It's also deadly. You could apply a similar analogy to building materials. There are myriad products and finishes that look good, that are...
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