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First Look: Ikea's Wildly Experimental New PS Collection
Every few years, Ikea releases its limited-edition PS Collection—a series of experimental products that aren't intended to supplant its perennial offerings, but rather to add a jolt of energy into its...
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How A Tiny Staging Company Built A $100 Million Business
A few years ago, you might have caught Ari Heckman and Jonathan Minkoff—cofounders of the New York–based design company ASH—loading up a station wagon with flea market finds to "stage" properties on...
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Can You Teach AI To Design? Wix Thinks So
There are myriad services that make designing a website very easy, like Squarespace, Adobe Portfolio, and Google's Material Design Lite. But Wix, the website builder with 85 million users, wants to go...
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From Ikea, 7 Key Insights On The Future Of Home
This month, Ikea released the annual Life at Home report. Now in its third year, the report helps Ikea develop new products, offering a tantalizing glimpse at designs that could shape the look and feel...
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Ikea's Quest To Think Like A Software Company
Every year, Ikea introduces around 2,500 new products to customers around the world. Working under the umbrella philosophy "Democratic Design," the company evaluates every single piece—from humble tea...
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Vaping Makes Its Way Into Public Art
This summer, visitors to Hunter's Point South Park—a relatively new waterfront park in Queens—might spy plumes of pink and blue mist rising from a concrete cube. This piece is called Meridian (Gold), a...
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10 Design Ideas For The Perk Workers Actually Want: Quiet
Do expensive amenities like great food and game rooms really attract the best employees? That's been the conventional wisdom for the past decade. But more and more offices are rethinking what the most...
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Three Ex-Apple Engineers Want To Make You A Safer Driver In Under 15 Minutes
When I was in elementary school, one of my teachers joked that she had eyes in the back of her head—a warning to us that there would be no shenanigans when she wasn't looking. Turns out that the...
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A Slow Cooker For A Generation Raised On The Food Network
Before sous vide machines migrated from fine dining to domestic domains, before Keurigs and "The Keurig of Xs" began cluttering countertops, and before we started pulverizing food into a textureless...
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Hate Furniture Shopping? Here's An All-In-One Living Room
Apartments aren't getting any bigger and, as a recent report from Ikea reveals, dwellings filled with space-hogging clutter are turning us into neurotic minimalists. The solution? Furnishings that let...
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The Man Who Made America's Magnificently Tacky Architecture Famous
Today you're likely to see the same sanitized strip malls and generic motels along most of America's interstate system, but decades ago, highways would sport all sorts of local flavors. The structures...
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Collar Is The Love Child Of Scandinavian Design And Italian Coffee Culture
The stovetop moka pot is a classic method for brewing coffee. A design dating to the 1930s, it's a staple of kitchens all over Italy and, according to Daniel Debiasi and Federico Sandri of Something...
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Why Cute Design Is Aww-some
To some, calling a design "cute" might seem like a sly, backhanded compliment. Yes, it's nice to look at, but cuteness isn't typically taken seriously. Hello Kitty is cute. Lisa Frank is cute. They're...
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Proof That Small Buildings (And Budgets) Can Have A Big Impact
For 13 years now, the AIA has reserved a special recognition for projects that do a lot with a little, whether it's cash or space. This year, it's bestowed honors on a reading nook in a public library,...
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President Obama's Library To Be Designed By Small Husband-And-Wife Firm
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects has been awarded the coveted commission to design and build the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. The New York–based practice, led by husband and wife Tod...
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Dwell.com Relaunches As A Social Network For The Design-Obsessed
Plenty of websites offer design inspiration, like Pinterest, Instagram, Houzz, and the thousands of blogs on the web. But most of them are fire hoses of information, lumping everything together—a...
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To Design New Cancer Treatment Center, Kaiser Borrows From The Luxury Spa...
Radiation therapy is physically and psychologically grueling. And because of the technology required, it often takes place in sterile, dim, underground spaces. But for its Radiation Oncology Center in...
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Behind The Controversial Auction Of A Modernist Icon
It's easy to wax nostalgic about a place like the Four Seasons, one of the most pedigreed spaces in New York City. So when the landmarked Modernist restaurant designed by Philip Johnson and Mies van...
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The Building Museum Transforms Itself Into A Glacial Ice Field
While the summer temps in D.C. climb into the 80s and 90s, the Great Hall in the National Building Museum is channeling a chilly arctic vibe—thanks to ICEBERGS, a new installation by James Corner Field...
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How Music Could Help Solve Architecture's Diversity Problem
Over the years, Michael Ford—a designer based in Wisconsin—has written, lectured, and theorized about Modernism as a catalyst for hip-hop. Now, Ford is at work designing the Universal Hip Hop Museum in...
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