Harry Allen’s Newsstand for the ICFF’s international media sponsors (Abitare, Domus, Frame, Interi, Intramuros, and Wallpaper*) cuts a friendly, if not curious, figure amid this year’s exhibitor booths. Constructed from Styrofoam insulation panels and colored painter’s tape, the igloo-like form…
Walking into FLOWmarket, a white-curtained grocery offering shelfulls of “Holistic Thinking” and “Inner Calm,” is like wandering into the wrong movie theatre and staying to figure out the story. Maybe it’s the cynic in us, maybe it’s our environmental packaging…
Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma makes knitwear that celebrates its provenance.
Knitters practice urban beautification by taking their needles to the streets.
Typographer Christian Acker captures graffiti styles for posterity.
The news that minimalist Jasper Morrison has developed a line of cookware for Alessi seems unusual, if not perplexing. In the United States “Alessi” calls to mind tiny people, like the little red man steeping your tea or the green…
Unlike her previous pieces—chair-sized pompoms and the fantastical wool cushion/carpet—Denmark-based Pernelle Fagerlund’s Textile Stones operate on a more intimate scale, but remain as innovative and playful in form and technique. Presented by Danish Crafts CC10 jubilee collection at this year’s…
A big book that revived the monograph and redefined the role of graphic design.
German typographers address scores of new communication needs with an icon set for the Vialog typeface.
A new hotel in Madrid—featuring a roster of big names—serves as a kind of interior design theme park.
Namco’s fantastically childlike video game has sophisticated overtones.
In hopes of finding midday solace and a moment of relief from election anxiety, I recently visited The Voting Booth Project, an exhibit of Votomatic booths customized by four dozen artists and graphic designers. I went to the politically left-leaning…
