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Hungry? Print Yourself a Meal
Every year Electrolux Design Lab runs a student competition for innovative household appliances, and every year the challenge draws out ideas that are both visionary in concept [verging on sci-fi]...
written by: Sarah Rich08.27.09 -
Portland's 11xDesign Home Tour
It’s not every local homes tour that merits attention beyond a city’s borders. But the 11xDesign tour, scheduled for February 21, featuring some of Portland’s most inspired...
written by: Brian Libby02.19.09 -
Dispatch: Maison et Objet
Every fall the Maison et Objet Show in Paris sets and spots trends in lifestyle and home design. Most notable this fall are the continuing trends towards slowing down, living close to the land, and...
written by: Laure Joliet09.15.08 -
A New Nørreport for Copenhagen
While I was studying abroad last spring in Copenhagen, every morning on my way to school I passed through the busiest train hub, Nørreport Station. Whether on bike, bus, or train, it was...
written by: Tiffany Chu11.13.09 -
Our Renovation
Every night I said, “Trust me, sweetheart, this is going to be amazing, beautiful, fantastic
written by: Peter Moore Smith02.26.09 -
Power Plastic
Every hour, enough sunlight hits the earth to power the entire planet for a year. But since they’re pricey—and, let’s face it, generally unattractive—solar cells are still woefully underutilized...
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Hunter Freeman01.31.09 -
Straw House: Facts and Figures
Environment: About 200 million tons of straw go to waste in the U.S. every year. If all the wasted straw were burned, it would add up to nearly 6 percent of the total CO2 emitted annually by...
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The Bathroom Zone
Reducing your water usage is easy, and it doesn’t mean you have to brush your teeth with a pinecone or weep with remorse every time you flush the can. As is the case with all resource usage,...
written by: Dan Maginn01.01.09 -
Uniformity of Design
Where do typography, fashion, and history come together every spring, summer, and fall? On pro baseball uniforms, is where.
written by: David A. Greene12.21.08 -
Bioplastic: Green or Greenwashing?
There's a vast field of opportunity right now for designing every day objects using new materials that make them safer and more sustainable. Food containers—which we throw away in astonishing...
written by: Sarah Rich10.01.08 -
Modern Sharecropping
For every well-tended backyard garden there’s another gone to seed, and for every happy horticulturalist noodling with the begonias out front there’s a cooped-up apartment dweller...
written by: Sara Carnochan03.15.11 -
7 Great Reads You May Have Missed
Dwell.com is never short of informative, inspiring, and engaging articles and slideshows for your viewing pleasure, but with 50 original articles every week, it's easy to miss some of the good...
written by: Megan Hamaker02.11.13 -
Top Drawer
Residents of this contemporary home in Koriyama, Japan, squeeze out every cubic inch of storage, courtesy of a centuries-old design concept.
written by: Winifred Bird11.26.12 -
Women of Influence
We identify a cross-section of designers hard at work in every corner of society, from a Taiwanese graphic designer working in the New York headquarters of Pentagram, to the first female...
written by: Kelsey Keith07.17.12 -
Joseph Joseph Prevails in Patent Lawsuit
From the glossy and the tactile to the litigous, Dwell's June issue (on newsstands now) covers every facet of interior design, including a piece that addresses the touchy subject of...
written by: Kelsey Keith05.31.12 -
The Tallest Cake in the World
To my joie de vivre, my first Sunday in Paris coincided with musée gratuit dimanche, the first Sunday of every month when museums across the city open their doors to the masses for no charge...
written by: Tiffany Chuphotos by: Tiffany Chu07.06.10 -
Greg Sharp of BSB Design
BSB Design was established in 1966 in Des Moines, Iowa, as a small architectural firm with a grand mission statement: Every family deserves to live in an architect-designed home. Forty-plus years...
written by: Dwell Staff01.07.10 -
A Note on Our Expert: John Sencion
John Sencion is “cocaptain” of Flight 001, the travel store that is every frequent flyer’s jet dream.
02.26.09 -
Lotusan Paint
Product design that takes cues from nature, known as biomimicry, has produced a num- ber of ingenious and popular products we use every day.
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Hunter Freeman01.31.09 -
Concept
On every scale, from cottage industry to mass market, production starts with research. Johnstone begins by scouring the globe for team members who have the right skills and design sense to match a...
01.01.09 -
Finishing
When finishes are chosen and every-one has signed off, the factory line begins to churn. “We do a short production run of about 500 phones,” says Johnstone, “and use them heavily to gather feedback...
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A Laptop Even A Panda Could Love
Discarded computers arrive by the thousands every day from the US and Western Europe to West African ports, after which they're discarded in toxic dumps. Children burn them and pull out the metals...
written by: Jamie Waugh12.23.08 -
Hlaska Evergreen Briefcase
Having toted this slim, Italian leather valise across the Pacific, across the States and across town, I can say that Hlaska’s Evergreen briefcase is a first-rate piece of luggage, every bit...
written by: Aaron Britt11.25.08 -
World’s Most Turkey-Shaped Building
The University of Toronto’s John P. Robarts Research Library contains 4.8 million books, 4.1 million microforms, and 740,000 “other” items (probably every episode of Degrassi, among other surprises...
written by: Jason Wire04.27.13 -
A Dramatic San Francisco Living Room
"A fallacy about modernism is that every space should be light,” says San Francisco architect Abigail Turin about her Pacific Heights home. “I don’t need every space in my house to be bright and...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Justin Fantl03.04.13
