by Chris Force | May 23, 2019 | News
Sixtysix magazine is back with our sophomore print issue, delving further into “the craft of creativity” with living legends and emerging voices of the global design community. The nearly 200-page issue is available worldwide now. The Spring/Summer 2019...
by Studio Sixtysix | May 23, 2019 | In The Studio
Inspiration for the shape comes not only from nature, but also architecture. “Architects are building these monstrosities of buildings that can stand for hundreds of years, and they are doing it with geometric shapes and forms,” T.J. says. But while the overall shape...
by Studio Sixtysix | May 22, 2019 | Design
Laufen sits at the intersection of form and function, creating dream-like bathrooms that feel simultaneously futuristic and familiar enough to create a sense of ease. When the Swiss brand, known for its collaborations with esteemed designers, started looking for a...
by Stephen Gossett | Apr 23, 2019 | Industrial Designers
The store and office of emerging Ukrainian design duo FILD, in the Shevchenko neighborhood of Kiev, is easy enough to spy, thanks to its distinctive color scheme: ash grey brick around a bright yellow front door. Inside, among the clean lines and open spaces: more ash...
by Max Gunawan | Mar 26, 2019 | Product Designers
Jakarta-born, San Francisco-based designer Max Gunawan is the creative brain behind the book-shaped, fold-open Lumio light. He raised nearly $580,000 on an initial goal of just $60,000 in a 2013 Kickstarter campaign for his trademark product. In 2015 he appeared on...
by Ayla Angelos | Mar 7, 2019 | Interviews
“What if we could enable others to see bacteria as a carrier of meaning, rather than a carrier of disease?” asks Stockholm-based designer Jan Klingler. For this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair, Jan exhibited a collection of Bacteria Lamps in the Greenhouse...
by Stephen Gossett | Mar 6, 2019 | Interviews
Lighting, electronics, kitchenware, the iconic Thinking Man’s Chair, even a German tram—Jasper Morrison has designed in just about every category over his illustrious, three-decade-plus career. It might seem counterintuitive to label a designer who has notably...
by Stephen Gossett | Mar 1, 2019 | Furniture Designers
The relationship between design and the natural world has always been fertile ground for exploration, but in the age of climate change, resource depletion, and habitat degradation, designers seem to be examining the link more explicitly than ever. Take this...
by Ayla Angelos | Feb 5, 2019 | Designers
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, the Italian designers behind Amsterdam-based studio Formafantasma, are tackling social issues through innovative product design and material experimentation. While taking aim at wasteful design and consumption habits, the duo...
by Maia Welbel | Jan 31, 2019 | Product Designers
Allie Kushnir’s driving force has always been finding the most considerate way to live. The painter and designer has developed a brand of custom-printed fabrics and paper products—both grounded in the principle of minimizing environmental impact. Allie is also...
by Julia Stone | Jan 25, 2019 | Product Designers
Piotrek Pérez works hard and plays hard. When he’s not working as a product designer at Joma-Sport, he’s multitasking as a freelance designer and marketer, or teaching classes as an associate professor of industrial design engineering and product development at...
by Kris Vire | Jan 24, 2019 | Interviews
Now the head of industrial design at virtual-reality company Oculus, where he works on VR headsets like the Rift and Go, Seattle-based product designer Peter Bristol was previously the creative director of Carbon Design Group. There, he and his team were behind the...
