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I've had my eye on the handsome little notebooks from Field Notes--a collaboration between Portland, Oregon's Draplin Design Company and Chicago's Coudal Partners--for some time now. Call them the…

Product Spotlight

Field Notes Winter Colors Series

Aaron Britt

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A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful energy.

The Future of

Play: Electric Slide

Marc Kristal

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Artist Tobias Putrih gave a gallery talk at the List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week, shedding light on the ideas behind his latest exhibition, Without Out.

What We Saw

At the Verge of Collapse

Tiffany Chu

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This week we're highlighting a slew of show openings around the world and in the United States focusing on big-name designers and big-name ideas.

Out and About

This Weekend: 11.19-11.22

Miyoko Ohtake

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Picked as one of our favorite international design schools in the December/January 2010 issue, EPFL + ECAL Lab in Lausanne, Switzerland, is a new program that marries the design know-how of the…

Conversation

Nicolas Henchoz and EPFL + ECAL Lab

Aaron Britt

11/19/2009 Leave a comment

Over the years the blogosphere has seen a number of stories about generating power from the vibration of people's feet on a train platform, stairs, bridges and even—in perhaps the most…

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POWERleap: Energy on the Floor

Sarah Rich

11/19/2009 1 comment

Somehow stairs have become the object of "design porn" of late, and while it seems as likely that lamps or sofas or kitchen cabinetry could feature in lusty internet photos, stairs prove…

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Stair Lust

Sarah Rich

11/18/2009 Leave a comment

Living in a temperate climate, and deciding between a dark roof and a white roof? Trying to calculate if your summertime benefit with a light roof will outweigh the potential wintertime losses? We…

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Color-Changing Roof Tiles

Tiffany Chu

11/17/2009 Leave a comment

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Toronto, Ontario, is one metropolis that never ceases to amaze me with its never-ceasing construction. I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and always loved being able to see the city from across Lake…

Three Buildings

Toronto, Ontario

Miyoko Ohtake

11/16/2009 13 comments

Just a collection of Internet fun, submitted for your viewing pleasure by your friendly Dwell staffers. Happy Friday!

Week in Review

Friday Finds 11.13.2009

Amanda Dameron

11/13/2009 Leave a comment

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…

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A New Nørreport for Copenhagen

Tiffany Chu

11/13/2009 2 comments

Last week warranted a design detour to Portland for a panel discussion on contemporary Chinese design hosted by OFFICE PDX, an online design shop and pop-up retailer, in conjunction with the China…

Conversation

Gregg Stobs, Retail Design Director

Charlotte West

11/12/2009 Leave a comment

Considered neither modern nor contemporary dance, but more circus or rodeo with a dash of extreme sports and Hollywood-esque stunt-work, the STREB company dancers are known to perform petrifying…

What We Saw

STREB Dancers Are Action Architects

Tiffany Chu

11/12/2009 Leave a comment

While reporting one of our feature stories in the September issue, I became pals with the owners and residents at Taylor Gourmet, the H St. NE deli we featured. David Mazza and Casey Patten did a…

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DC Deli Office Renovation

Aaron Britt

11/11/2009 Leave a comment

As digital fabrication meets high design, we find more and more examples of amazing furniture and household products (and even interior surfaces and architectural facades) that use 3-D modeling and…

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3-D Modeling Fashion

Sarah Rich

11/11/2009 1 comment

Showcasing the first fruits from Hometta's new design delivery model, "Welcome Hometta" brings to Boston 24 contemporary home designs from innovative firms across the country. One of…

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Pinkcomma Gallery Welcomes Hometta

Tiffany Chu

11/10/2009 1 comment

UK artist Antony Hall refers to himself as an amateur scientist. Indeed, his work constantly blurs the lines between science, art, and technology.

Conversation

Antony Hall

Dwell Staff

11/09/2009 Leave a comment

I've got a soft spot for really nice bags--totes, brief cases, messenger bags--and the M/S Canvas line from Danish designers Mismo are scratching me right where I itch.

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Mismo M/S Canvas Bags

Aaron Britt

11/10/2009 Leave a comment

As we finish planning our Small Spaces issue for next year, I was interested to find coverage [via Dezeen] of an exhibition called Small Houses, which ran last month during the Czech design…

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Small Houses in Prague

Sarah Rich

11/09/2009 Leave a comment

I was down visiting some friends in Santa Cruz, California, a couple weekends back, and one of my hosts--a friend working on his dissertation on Californian Utopianism in literature who knows of…

Bookshelf

The Visionary State

Aaron Britt

11/09/2009 Leave a comment

Field Notes Winter Colors Series

Play: Electric Slide

At the Verge of Collapse

This Weekend: 11.19-11.22

Nicolas Henchoz and EPFL + ECAL Lab

POWERleap: Energy on the Floor

Stair Lust

Color-Changing Roof Tiles

Toronto, Ontario

Friday Finds 11.13.2009

A New Nørreport for Copenhagen

Gregg Stobs, Retail Design Director

STREB Dancers Are Action Architects

DC Deli Office Renovation

3-D Modeling Fashion

Pinkcomma Gallery Welcomes Hometta

Antony Hall

Mismo M/S Canvas Bags

Small Houses in Prague

The Visionary State

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