Tiffany Chu

Often, we cleanse our duds in a wasteland of half-forgotten detergent bottles and dryer-sheet-detritus.

A self-proclaimed “collector of old stuff,” designer Yota Kakuda finds inspiration in vintage objects found in junk shops and...

If 28-year-old Henry Wilson were not a designer, he would be a skipper.

Max Lipsey always begins his design process by holding a material in his bare hands.

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To my joie de vivre, my first Sunday in Paris coincided with musée gratuit dimanche, the first Sunday of every month when museums...

The latest Play Date at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art was held last weekend, to much applause and hands-on revelry in...

Perhaps the most beloved prefix these days for events and design projects -- aside from 'eco-' of course -- is 'pop-up.' Where...

I heralded the beginning of my summer with an excursion along the Maine coast, which landed me in Portland this past weekend.

Known to many architects as that translucent film paper on which archaic hand drawings become worthy of pin-up, mylar is making...

Touted as 'an inkjet printer in architectonical scale,' the Facadeprinter works by taking a vector or pixel file, and 'shoots' it...

From gypsies to migrant workers to families in RVs, nomadism has been a constant societal fringe condition throughout the course...

I had the opportunity to view a riveting film last week on Edward Burtynsky's photography, entitled Manufactured Landscapes.

It is nearly impossible to talk about materials today without invoking a full-fledged powwow about life cycle analysis, carbon...

Artist Tobias Putrih gave a gallery talk at the List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week, shedding light on...

Living in a temperate climate, and deciding between a dark roof and a white roof? Trying to calculate if your summertime benefit...

While I was studying abroad last spring in Copenhagen, every morning on my way to school I passed through the busiest train hub,...

Considered neither modern nor contemporary dance, but more circus or rodeo with a dash of extreme sports and Hollywood-esque...

As a nod to the home of the nation's first subway, Rail-Volution rolled into Boston this past weekend.

Strolling down Brattle Street in Harvard Square, one can't help but notice the new vibrant swathes of color and fabric trumpeting...

At Dress Codes, the current exhibition and third triennial at the International Center of Photography in New York, I saw a...

"Makers with Ph.Ds stood next to makers from the side of the road - it is not about who you are or where you come from, but what...

Providence is all abuzz with "A Better World By Design" this weekend, a three-day conference thrown by students at Brown...

As I trekked northward to Maine last month for a lobster-filled weekend getaway, I stumbled upon the Ogunquit Museum of American...

Among the ever-expanding sea of wood alternatives, Kirei -- the Japanese character signifying 'beautiful' or 'clean' -- makes...

How many people can say that they've lived a chunk of their lives inside the walls of a starchitect-designed building? In light...

As a product of our financial climate, cities all over the world have been experiencing a surge in one of the most unattractive...

A temporary summerhouse has opened in Amsterdam.

Prefab design has had its ups and downs over the last year or so, but a challenged housing market hasn't stopped creative...

From Banksy to Katsu to Iz the Wiz, we often hear about guerilla graffiti artists who've taken their social critiques to the...

While multifunctional furniture systems that open and unfold and morph into fifty different pieces are quite cool and impressive,...

Starting as a dormant, unassumingly giant egg, Romanian designer Vlad Icobet's conceptual product hatches into an elegant,...

The second annual Renegade Craft Fair swooped into San Francisco's Fort Mason Festival Pavilion last weekend, delighting Bay Area...

In 2007, New York City's Office of Emergency Management launched an international housing design competition, What if NYC?,...

Welcome to Museum of Robots, where androids are the muses for Richard and Vicky Küng's collection of modern housewares and home...

In the highly contested 53 West 53rd Street site in Manhattan, Axis Mundi has revealed an alternatively 'diverse' design for the...