Preview What's in Store for Salone del Mobile 2019
The show will honor Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci—who passed away 500 years ago this year—with a series of installations. Multiple brands will also be echoing Da Vinci's humanistic ideas.
Author: Ethan Tucker
Child's Play: 3 Books Delve Into Design for Kids
Each book takes a unique look at how designers have embraced the challenge of creating products for the pint-size consumer.
Allsteel's Park Collection Combines Coziness with Low-Tech Flexible Design
A collaboration with Norm Architects, the workplace-focused collection unites Allsteel’s experience in manufacturing with Norm’s expertise in crafting wooden furniture.
This New Lighting Fixture Flexes in Any Direction Thanks to 3D Knitted Fabric and Ultra-Thin LEDs
Brooklyn lighting designers Rich Brilliant Willing has teamed up with manufacturer OLEDworks to develop a futuristic, bendable lighting panel.
Inside the Ideas (and Studio) of Amsterdam-Based Designer Khodi Feiz
“We no longer can only rely on personal productivity, but rather on social productivity," the product designer and founder of Feiz Design Studio says.
KPF's New Building at the University of Michigan Melds Sleek Geometries With Practicality
For the design of the school's Ross School of Business, the firm relied on a custom extruded terra-cotta rainscreen to create a highly-textured facade.
Surveying L.A. Pomo: Koning Eizenberg
In this series of articles, Metropolis celebrates the diverse, innovative Postmodern architecture coming out of La La Land between 1975 and the early 1990s.
The Cooper Hewitt Announces National Design Award Recipients
Neri Oxman, Blu Dot, Weiss/Manfredi, and more will receive the Smithsonian Design Museum's highest design honor at a ceremony this fall.
Snøhetta’s Out-of-This World Design for Norway’s Largest Planetarium
The campus, set within a dense forest north of Oslo, will include a variety of buildings inspired directly by planets and their orbits.
Autodesk's New and Improved BIM Software
Called BIM 360 Design, the product will launch this month and build on Autodesk’s previous efforts to facilitate collaboration in Revit.
FLOS Introduces Reconfigurable Jewelry-Like Light Fixtures
In the new system, called Arrangements, individual elements can be combined and recombined to create one-of-a-kind lighting displays.
The Fascinating History of Le Corbusier’s Lost Barge
The Louise-Catherine, a Parisian barge transformed by the Modernist icon into a homeless shelter, sank due to unprecedented rainfall last month.
George R. Kravis II, One of America's Most Prolific Design Collectors, Dies
Kravis, a renowned collector of industrial design and founder of the Kravis Design Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, passed away this week after a long illness.
