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Explore - Interviews
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Mona El Khafif: Design Build
In 2006, architect and urban planner Mona El Khafif traded Vienna's wiener schnitzel for beignets in the Big Easy to teach at Tulane University's URBANbuild program. Now an associate professor of...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.22.10 -
Emiliano Granado
Although photographer Emiliano Granado only took to the camera five years ago, he quickly mastered the arts of spatial and social portraiture. After taking courses at New York’s International...
written by: Dwell Staff03.23.10 -
Eight Questions for Frank Muytjens
Yesterday Frank Muytjens, head designer of menswear at J. Crew, came to San Francisco and we met up down at Sam's Grill for lunch. Though mass-market menswear isn't exactly Dwell's standard design...
written by: Aaron Britt03.26.10 -
Illustrator Mike Perry
Mike Perry knows how to fill a page--and beginning this week, he's filling a 2,800-square-foot exhibition space at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The Brooklyn-based illustrator and...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake03.29.10 -
Omer Arbel
Omer Arbel is a Vancouver–based architect and designer who creates spaces and objects in equal measure. Most recently he designed both the the medals for the 2010 Winter Olympics and and the...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer03.31.10 -
Nathan Vincent
When I first stumbled upon designer Nathan Vincent's work, I immediately knew I'd found something unique. Using crochet as a method to make traditionally masculine objects, Vincent challenges...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer04.07.10 -
Richard Schulman
I met photographer Richard Schulman and his wife, Barbara, a few years back and instantly developed a friendship with them. Their love of design and architecture is infectious—they eat, sleep...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer04.12.10 -
Q & A with Patrick Reymond
Partnership is imperative for Swiss designer Patrick Reymond, who runs the design studio Atelier Oï with longtime collaborators Aurel Aebi and Armand Louis. Working out of a repurposed motel...
written by: Dwell Staff04.13.10 -
Richard Schulman's Photographs
Last week I talked to photographer Richard Schulman about his career photographing legends of the architecture and art worlds. This week Richard pulled 21 images from his impressive catalog to...
written by: Bradford Shellhammerphotos by: Richard Schulman04.20.10 -
Craig Dykers of Snøhetta
Ask for Mr. Snøhetta and you'll receive a hiking stick and map to one of Norway's tallest peaks. The eponymous architecture firm, with offices in Oslo and New York, is purposely anonymous,...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake05.03.10 -
Xavier Le Roy, Self-Unfinished
Hailing from Montpellier in the south of France, Xavier Le Roy is a renowned modern choreographer (and former biochemist) whose work kneads together space, human body, and machine. After seeing...
written by: Tiffany Chu05.04.10 -
John Christakos of Blu Dot
I have always adored Blu Dot's mission: good design at good prices. Heck, I liked them so much I even worked for them. I caught up with Blu Dot's CEO & founder John Christakos and he answered...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer05.05.10 -
ICFF 2010: Tom Dixon
Designer Tom Dixon, armed with a tiny tupperware full of sunflower seeds and a suspiciously healthy looking container of green juice, sat down at ICFF 2010 to chat about his latest limited-edition...
written by: Amanda Dameron05.16.10 -
Q&A: Gijs Bakker
As cofounder of the iconic Dutch collective Droog, industrial designer Gijs Bakker further defined the design identity of his homeland, the Netherlands, as simple and playful, conceptual but...
written by: Jordan Kushins05.25.10 -
Phuc Van Dang
Last month artist and designer Phuc Van Dang sent me a note about our mutual love of color. That email exchange led to more, and allowed me to discover more about his varied works. I asked him a...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer05.27.10 -
Q&A with Thien of Domison
"We make happy furniture. There's too much serious furniture in the world," says Thien, cofounder and codesigner of Periphere and Domison, two of Canada's preeminent modern furniture...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake05.28.10 -
Jon Gasca of STUA
Jon Gasca and his father Jesus Gasca are the creative minds behind STUA, a 20-year-old design house based in Spain. I tracked Jon down in San Sebastian, Spain, and asked him about his new chair,...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer06.14.10 -
Clover Lee and David Erdman
An installation currently on display at the SCI-Arc Gallery, Immuring by David Clovers, is championing the modern-day fresco. Curious about the forms and the computational development behind...
written by: Tiffany Chu06.29.10 -
Artist Maira Kalman at the CJM
I've long loved her New Yorker covers, and am still over the moon about the illustrated version of Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style from 2005, so I leapt at the chance to meet...
written by: Aaron Britt07.01.10 -
David Carlson
“I’m not particularly interested in ‘design,’” says David Carlson, a man who has spent much of his career focused on the subject. “I see it as more of a cultural...
written by: Jordan Kushins07.07.10


















