by Chris Force | May 29, 2020 | Design
LET’S DO SOMETHING we’d all love to right about now—jump five years into the future. It’s now 2025. There’s been five years of aggressive—and I mean tear the thing down and rebuild it aggressive—innovation in the world of cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Some...
by Chris Force | May 20, 2020 | Design
Alex Strohl lives a life most of us daydream about. The 30-year-old French photographer spends most of the year traveling the world creating images that mix outdoor exploration with quiet contemplation. For an adventure photographer his work is understated and...
by Katie Treggiden | May 20, 2020 | Design
Sitting with a bunch of new friends in the new Soho House in New York’s Meatpacking District in 2004, a young Fran Hickman felt at home for the first time since she’d left the UK. The realization that the design of a space could have such a profound impact on our...
by Lisa Helmanis | May 14, 2020 | Design
The Tom Dixon operation is slick. From the ground floor shop that feels more like a gallery than retail space to the flank of receptionists and young designers gliding around the office spaces, everyone seems quietly thrilled to be working against this considered,...
by Chris Force | May 8, 2020 | Design
It’s sunny, low 70s, in the Del Rey neighborhood of West Los Angeles. A new office compound is under construction—one of many new developments aimed at making room for the tech, startup, and media companies that are flocking to the area, what’s being referred to as...
by Emily Gosling | May 5, 2020 | Design
Right now, things are hectic,” graphic designer Na Kim tells us from her current home/studio in Stuttgart, Germany. Frankly we’d be surprised to hear things weren’t, considering the breadth of her work and the places it takes her. Na currently spends around half the...
by Laura Rote | May 4, 2020 | Design
Inside The Waterlands in St. Petersburg, Florida, Bill Hamilton and his crew of seven toil away on an unlikely product—vintage style clawfoot tubs. Sparks fly, the polisher whizzes and groans, and Bill himself tinkers at the computer, reinterpreting a 19th century...
by Laura Rote | Apr 30, 2020 | Design
Kirt Martin really wants me to meet everyone. When I arrive at Landscape Forms—a sprawling three-facility campus in Kalamazoo, Michigan with more than 430 full-time employees currently—the chief creative officer is eager to show me around. I shake hands with two dozen...
by Mikenna Pierotti | Apr 23, 2020 | Design
In the late 1970s designer Roger Webb visited the Mars Confectionery Company in England. Unusual for its time, the office plan was open, with management at the center and workers all around. “It was planned to provide more transparency with little evident hierarchy—in...
by Sophia Conforti | Apr 6, 2020 | Design
As designers around the globe adapt to new creative realities at home, Abigail Honor, CEO and founding partner of Lorem Ipsum, and her team are preparing to take audiences elsewhere. In two new projects—a museum on Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and an exhibition on the future...
by Jessica Mordacq | Mar 5, 2020 | Design
Designer Aaron Denton is inspired by minimalism, modernism, and easy living. Since he started freelancing full-time in January 2018, he’s used these influences to create hypnotic band posters and album covers from the comfort of his Bloomington, Indiana home. The two...
by Chris Force | Feb 12, 2020 | Design
It was 1977. At the Consumer Electronics Show, then held in Chicago, the world’s first personal computer, the Commodore PET, was announced. Apple Computer was incorporated. Star Wars hit the movie theaters, and Harley-Davidson released the very first Low Rider...
