Museum-goers are given a glimpse into the pioneering processes of Pixar Animation Studios.
Zurich-based Shagal | Interdisciplinary Office for Design, Architecture & Arts prides itself on being a zero-waste company—even to the point of adopting secondhand collateral for their own calling cards. “We receive so much paper every day,” cofounder Siamak Shahneshin says. “We thought, Why not reuse it in a way that would portray our office?” Shagal isn’t the first firm to…
A public-art project aims to reunite two sections of Kansas City that are divided by an interstate.
To many New Yorkers, the opening of Liquid Sky, this year’s courtyard installation for P.S. 1’s Warm Up, will herald the start of summer. But to creators Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues it begins the cycle of another temporary work. The design-build duo created the tensile pavilion from a tentlike surface composed of custom-made Mylar petals and stretched across utility…
A glowing wood-grained light box displaying three enlarged family snapshots greets customers at Valley, a women’s boutique and spa that opened last October in New York’s trendy Lower East Side. It’s the most striking element of the rustic aesthetic—reminiscent of a childhood in the San Fernando Valley—that co-owners and sisters Nina and Julia Werman wanted for their new store. With…
Matthew Moore’s land-art project on his family’s Arizona farm announces an alien invasion—suburbs.
Metropolis asked a few of our favorite design and product blogs to contribute their ideas for their pick of the top five products of 2005.
