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 The Sixtysix Staff | May 19, 2020 | Products
1. YETI Tundra 45 YETI started in 2006, when brothers Roy and Ryan Seiders were frustrated by subpar coolers. They set out to design one that was durable enough for anglers to stand on and cast from and that could hold ice for hours. The Tundra line of coolers, with...
by Haydee Touitou | May 15, 2020 | Studio Tours
“A lot of money is spent on modeling clay.” It’s one of the first things Ronan Bouroullec tells me when I ask him about the way he, his younger brother Erwan, and their dozen assistants work in the design atelier in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris. “We’ve...
by Jennifer Pastore | May 15, 2020 | Studio Tours
The From 1st Building, complex and labyrinthine in its design, seems almost antithetical to the work of Naoto Fukasawa, whose own intuitive designs bring life to top brands all over the globe. But Naoto was drawn to the five-story, brick Deconstructivist structure for...
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 Kris Vire | May 1, 2020 | Insights
The appliance brand Fisher & Paykel is a household name in New Zealand, as well as one of the top employers in Auckland, the island nation’s largest city. Many of its signature products, like the integrated DishDrawer™ dishwasher, are radical rethinking of...
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 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...
by Chris Force | Dec 13, 2019 | Products
“When we started thinking about the Electrified S2, founder Ties Carlier and I tried to understand car users in a city context. We talked a lot about something that is as easy to leave on the streets as a car without needing a big lock. Something that makes you not...
by Laura Rote | Dec 5, 2019 | Design
When prolific industrial designer Karim Rashid arrives at the office, he heads straight for a strong latte (or two) before answering emails and getting started on the many things on his to-do list, from meeting with studio managers and assistants to doing his own...
by Laura Rote | Nov 15, 2019 | Design
You can feel the anticipation the moment the lights go down. The musicians step out and the crowd goes wild. And the band—whether it’s Van Halen or Phantogram—is buzzing with energy, too. Not with noise and incredibly loud stage volume, but with the sound of Westone’s...
