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Explore - Interviews
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Q&A with Architectural Designer and Artist Maya Lin
The artist, designer, and architect takes us through her formative years as a maker, her dedication to environmental art, and the joys of furniture design.
written by: Amanda Dameronphotos by: Michael Lewis03.18.13 -
Q&A with Artspace Founder
If the "Introduction to Art Collecting" story in our December/January 2011 issue whet your appetite for art acquisition—or if you simply have a blank wall crying out for some...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.03.11 -
Q&A with Autograph Creative Directors
Donerik Dela Cruz and Aaron Pou describe their business as a “design start-up in challenging times,” but since launching Autograph, a brand consulting, art direction, and graphic design...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake05.05.09 -
Q&A with Black+Blum Founder
For more than a decade, London-based design company Black+Blum has been cranking out beautiful, sometimes quirky or humorous, and always functional products for the home. From its elegant tabletop...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake08.18.11 -
Q&A with Coyuchi's Design Director
Though my number-one dream job remains journalist and editor (lucky me!) a close second is textile and furniture designer (third place: documentary filmmaker). So I was excited about my recent...
written by: Jaime Gillin04.14.11 -
Q&A with Herman Miller's Marg Mojzak
Whether our recent essay "The Real Cost of Rip-Offs" got you thinking about the dark side of the knockoff industry—or left you unfazed and unconvinced—we'd like to continue...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.30.12 -
Q&A with Marimekko Designer Erja Hirvi
At Dwell we've always been fans of the bold prints by Finnish textile design house Marimekko and in honor of their 60th anniversary we toasted ten timeless prints and challenged you to vote on your...
written by: Ralston O'Neill12.21.11 -
Q&A with Pakistan's First Female Architect
As profiled in our "Women of Influence" roundup in our July/August 2012 issue, Yasmeen Lari is the closest thing Pakistan has to a design superhero. After years working as an architect,...
written by: Jaime Gillin07.02.12 -
Q&A with Sebastian Wrong
Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Sebastian Wrong, Design Development Director for the UK-based Established & Sons. He was in San Francisco to introduce his work at DZINE, a...
written by: Jordan Kushins04.06.09 -
Q&A with Stephen Burks
I ventured to Stephen Burks' "Man Made" exhibit a few days after returning home to New York City from a trip to India. The colors and textures of Indian culture, though not directly...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer04.11.11 -
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 -
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 -
Remaking the Past: Simon Watts
In June 2003, Simon Watts, a San Francisco furniture maker and author of the book Building a Houseful of Furniture, returned from vacation and was stunned to find his apartment of 15 years...
written by: Andrew Wagnerphotos by: Douglas Adesko07.31.09 -
Rich Brilliant Willing
When Senior Editor Aaron Britt was at Design Miami in December, he met the three RISD chaps behind the young industrial design firm Rich Brilliant Willing. Theo Richardson, Charles Brill, and...
written by: Aaron Britt02.01.10 -
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 -
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 -
Robert Hammond: Chance Encounters
Robert Hammond has just returned from a year in Rome. While there he created an urban experiment called Chance Encounter on the Tiber, involving 100 chairs in public spaces in Italy. Now back in...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer12.13.10 -
Sam Kaufman on Breuer's B32
I moved apartments over the weekend, and in the great push to clean out the old place in anticipation of the new, I decided to finally do away with a set of (free at the time) dining...
written by: Aaron Britt12.27.10 -
Sandy Chilewich
In our July/August 2012 issue, we profiled a cross-section of women working in the design field from architects to curatorial theorists and a handful of professions between. One prominent figure in...
written by: Diana Budds07.16.12 -
Shoe Supply's Upcycled Design
Belgian design firm Pinkeye recently created a retail space for Antwerp's Shoe Supply that upcycles an entire classroom. Situated on a quiet side street in the city's main retail district, the shop...
written by: Diana Budds05.25.11















