After the Floods: Australian Design Takes on Rising Seas
Living in Australia provides a glimpse into our climate-challenged future.
Author: Peter Hall
The 2,800-Hour Studio
The designer Elliott Earls and architecture students at Cranbrook learn some valuable lessons on the job.
Katie Salen's Video-Game Charter Schools Make Learning An Adventure
Using a game-based curriculum, Salen is challenging—head-on—education’s unhealthy reliance on tests.
Digitally Enhanced | Green Choices, on the Fly
Recently developed software promises to provide industrial designers with a powerful new tool for materials evaluation.
IDEO, Making Government More Innovative, Less Bureaucratic
The nimble consultancy brings design thinking to political structures in desperate need of reinvention.
The Total Package
Grimshaw Industrial Design creates a seamless interface between the building and its users.
The Green Vanguard: T is for Three-D Intelligence
Over a three-year collaboration, Fuseproject and Herman Miller developed the idea into SAYL, a lightweight chair whose main feature is a “3-D intelligent” back.
Back to School
Education experts tell us that kids today learn in fundamentally different ways. Why haven’t our classrooms changed to reflect this shift? A new student chair and learning lab from Steelcase look to bridge the gap.
Water Works
Led by a hard-charging CEO and his right-hand man, Grohe uses design to remake both the bathroom and its own business.
Towards a New Ethical Framework for Evaluating Design
The 20th-century definition of “good design” was driven primarily by form. Today the stakes are too high, and the world too complex, for a superficial response.
Selective Recall
Critics of the Museum of Arts and Design missed the real point of the building.
Innovation from the Innovators
Metropolis asked some of the world’s most forward-thinking architectural and engineering firms to name their newest green products and systems. Their responses provide a snapshot of state-of-the-art green building.
Innovation from the Innovators
Metropolis asked some of the world’s most forward-thinking architectural and engineering firms to name their newest green products and systems. Their responses provide a snapshot of state-of-the-art green building.
Out of the Shadows
With more people working from home, Herman Miller commissions a new line of domestic office furniture to accompany its famous Eames and Nelson pieces. But are icons born or made?
Custom Filtering
A new air purifier looks to provide fresh air in offices on a desk-by-desk basis.
Hot Property
In order to build himself a glass house, an Austin architect had to navigate the feverish politics of the city’s real estate market.
Sizing China
The world’s first digital database of Asian head and face shapes could help change the way all industrial designers think about ergonomics and fit.
Avoiding the Landfill: Afterlife
Western Michigan’s big-three furniture makers have plans for your office chair once you’re finally done sitting in it.
Hear Color, See Sound
Architect Christopher Janney’s playful public art acts as an aural and light-filled salve to the alienating effects of the built environment.
Push-Button Rewiring
Herman Miller looks to revolutionize interiors by making expensive renovations a thing of the past.
