Future100: Students Put Forward Immersive, Multisensory Retail Concepts
Young retail designers emphasize the ability of experiential design to stimulate emotional responses.
Author: Leilah Stone
A New Film Chronicles the Design Legacy of Airstream
Alumination, a new documentary by filmmaker Eric Bricker, captures the history and legacy of the iconic American travel trailer on its 90th anniversary.
Future100: Students Make Leaps in Industrial Design
Investigating everything from new social norms to biophilia, industrial and product design students make their mark at the object scale.
LikeMindedObjects Uses Waste to Create Sustainable Products With Personality
In addition to running her Hudson, New York studio and storefront, Elise McMahon of LikeMindedObjects has recently launched a collection of recycled pillow inserts called CRCL EARTH.
KYOGO Textiles Harness a Millennium-Old Weaving Technique
Based on visual motifs from Japanese history, the patterns of the new COIKI collection are best-suited for hospitality interiors.
Future100: Architecture Students Explore New Frontiers in Visualization
From board games to comic books, four students eschew realism for more emotive modes of architectural visualization.
An Immersive Installation Brings the Goodnight Moon Room to Manhattan
On view at Fort Makers gallery on the Lower East Side, Goodnight House showcases 14 artists and designers inspired by the children's classic.
The Fantastic Architecture of Niki de Saint Phalle
In her first major museum exhibition in New York City, MoMA PS1’s Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life investigates the artist’s underexplored relationship to the built environment.
In Its Retail Spaces, Shelter Collective Elevates the Object
During the pandemic, the Asheville, North Carolina–based studio designed a number of adaptable shops from a cannabis boutique to a children’s clothing store.
Meet the Makers Behind the Tufted Rug Renaissance
Tufting is blowing up, and no it’s not just a TikTok trend. Metropolis spoke with the artists and designers who are helping popularize the technique and some who have taken it up during quarantine.
A Jewelry Exhibition in Antwerp Channels Space Age Aesthetics
Designed by Amsterdam-based architecture firm Beyond Space, the scenography for The Jeweler’s Art: Revolutionary Jewelry from the 1960s & 1970s captures the aesthetic and cultural zeitgeist of the era.
Four Ways to Celebrate National Tile Day 2021
Founded in 2017 by Coverings, National Tile Day brings a range of opportunities for designers, from attending virtual film screenings to shopping for new releases.
For Andrés Reisinger, Dreamscapes Are a Necessity
The Argentinian artist and designer known for his 3D visualizations launches a new collection of work through an online exhibition and auction.
A Virtual Home Imagines a More Free and Authentic Future for Black Families
The Obsidian Virtual Concept House is an interactive dwelling conceptualized by the Black Artists + Designers Guild in collaboration with architects Leyden Lewis and Nina Cooke John with interiors by 25 BADG creatives.
Form Follows Fantasy: The Rise of the "Dreamscapes" Movement
At the intersection of architecture and advertising, a new aesthetic movement in digital art blurs fact and fiction.
A New Book Points to Unconventional Ways that Architecture Shapes Society
Radical Architecture of the Future by Beatrice Galilee highlights more than 75 projects that spur social and political change.
Crosby Studios Creates a Retro-Futuristic Flagship for Tech Accessories Brand CASETiFY
Located in Hong Kong's Landmark Atrium mall, the new store is an immersive, Instagrammable affair that helps gild the brand's digital identity.
Six Virtual Experiences Worth Getting Lost In
Designers, manufacturers, and curators continue to come up with imaginative solutions for experiencing design—without leaving your home.
A New Book Explores the Iterative Nature of Milton Glaser's Designs
Penned by the late design icon himself, Sketch & Finish juxtaposes over 70 finished works with original sketches, which he called "pictures of the brain."
Rosie Li’s Brooklyn Lighting Studio Gains a Playful Exhibition Space
Designed in collaboration with Office of Tangible Space, the flexible showroom displays the lighting designer’s fixtures, which she develops and produces in-house.
