Rem Koolhaas: "Architecture Has A Serious Problem Today"
Rem Koolhaas, the Pritzker Prize-winning Dutch architect, theorist, and provocateur, spoke with Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, in the closing keynote for the 2016 AIA...
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Biology Is Key To Unlocking The Future Of Design
"The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production," says Neri Oxman, an architect, designer, and director of the Mediated Matter research group within the MIT...
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The Real Story Behind Brutalism
"It's hard to love a brute," mused the podcast 99Percent Invisible in an episode that aired last year. The sentiment certainly rings true as Brutalist buildings are among the most polarizing and...
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All You Need To Build An Instrument With This App? Sticky Notes
Over the past few years, a wealth of designers have produced new musical instruments from unexpected objects—from touch-sensitive t-shirts to spandex panels wrapped around an architectural-scale frame...
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China's Star Design Studio: Consumerism Is Hurting The Industry
Lyndon Neri, cofounder with his wife and fellow architect Rossana Hu of the prolific Shanghai-based multidisciplinary design firm Neri & Hu, has felt depressed for the past couple of years. But in...
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The Internet's 10 "Ugliest" Websites
Craigslist is one of the ugliest websites on the Internet. The home page is an indistinct wall of links and text, the site is tough to navigate, the postings are cluttered, and the design has barely...
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The Star Horticulturist Behind Silicon Valley's Living Wall Trend
As with many virtuosos, David Brenner, founder of the San Francisco–based living wall experts Habitat Horticulture, makes his creative process seem intuitive and effortless. "Like designing anything,...
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Artist Corrects Inaccuracies At The George W. Bush Library With Augmented...
A presidential library is meant to be a celebration of the commander in chief's tenure. A capstone to a president's years in office, the libraries receive much fanfare surrounding the structure's...
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How Two Industrial Design Titans Are Helping Brands Simplify Tech
Kim Colin and Sam Hecht, founders of the London-based industrial design studio Industrial Facility, have helped a number of large companies work through thorny design problems. Herman Miller tapped...
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Can Rebranding Help A City Shake Its Seedy Reputation?
Dongguan is an industrial city located at the mouth of China's Pearl River Delta, about 50 miles north of Hong Kong, that's earned an unsavory reputation as a "sin city" for its high organized crime...
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Ideo, Astro, And Whipsaw: What Every Startup Should Know About Design
At Highway1, a design accelerator based in San Francisco, startups have four months to transform a prototype into a market-ready product, develop a business plan, create a brand identity, and craft a...
View ArticleWe Need These Delta Fast Lanes At Every Airport, Immediately
The airport security system is broken. Earlier this year, 1,000 American Airlines customers missed their flights from Chicago's O'Hare airport due to long waits at TSA checkpoints. The Port Authority...
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Inside The Visual Design Of A Mesmerizing Electronic Music Set
"I love chaos; I like things to be really fucking out of control," says designer and technologist Joshua Davis.Take the 240-foot-wide, interactive projection mapping project he created for Pepsi and...
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This Dutch Hostel Costs $15 A Night, And It's Nicer Than A Boutique Hotel
The Generator, in Amsterdam, is outfitted with furniture from the au courant British designer Tom Dixon and hometown star Marcel Wanders. Its walls are festooned with whimsical wallpaper from the...
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Playboy's Secret History As A Design Tastemaker
There's a running gag that readers buy Playboy for the articles, not the (formerly) nude centerfolds. But from the 1950s to the 1970s, you could unequivocally say you were buying it for the...
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How An Ideo Alum And A DARPA Challenge Winner Built The Ultimate Crash-Proof...
A Formula 1 race car is designed so that in the event of a crash, individual parts and components can be removed and replaced in mere seconds. The same principles are at play for the Snap, an aerial...
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REX Radically Rethinks The Glass Curtain Wall
Floor-to-ceiling windows are highly desirable in today's real estate market, which is why many new office buildings in D.C. are mostly clad in flat panes of glass. "In many 'taut' glass buildings in...
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A First Look At IKEA's New Museum
In the decades since Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA as a mail-order business in 1943, the Swedish company has become a household name in affordable furnishings and morphed into a complex,...
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Today's Workplace Is A Stage, Not An Office
To architect David Rockwell, the best clients are a lot like great theater directors. "They know what they want, but they don't describe what it looks like," he says. "There's a lot of open space and a...
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The New Office Chair: Portable, Lightweight, And Shaped Like A Pogo Stick
Design projects typically kick off with a brief, but in the case of the new HiLo stool that the San Francisco engineering and design firm Box Clever developed for Knoll, it began with an metaphor...
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