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Designer Spotlight: Matthew Plumstead
Minnesota-based designer Matthew Plumstead has had quite the year. His Integrated Workstation project for Herman Miller won a Red Dot award for best design concept and his Kickstarter campaign ...
written by: Diana Budds10.31.12 -
New Nordic
Make way, Arne and Eero. Forward-looking furniture company Muuto turns the spotlight on 21st-century Scandinavian design.
written by: Jaime Gillin10.27.12 -
Rossana Orlandi
During Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, there is one person that everyone watches: Rossana.
written by: Amanda Dameronphotos by: Leslie Williamson08.07.12 -
Munich's Dynamic Duo: Hansandfranz
Hans and Franz were a pair of characters in a Saturday Night Live sketch who yodeled with fake Austrian accents while wearing Schwarzenegger-send-up body padding. German Gen Y’ers Horst...
written by: Caia Hagel08.06.12 -
Local Fundraising
Creative projects get a leg up and their word out at gatherings that serve donations with a side of social capital. Move over, Kickstarter. Across the country, philanthropy is getting personalized.
written by: Diana Buddsphotos by: Vanessa Miller05.23.12 -
Mining Modernity
Danish designer Søren Rose debuted eight pieces of his Park Avenue furniture collection for De La Espada at the London Design Festival last year, and though the line is for sale its origins...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: João Canziani05.17.12 -
New Dutch Design: Aldo Bakker
Familiar objects take surprising new forms in the hands of experimental designer Aldo Bakker.
written by: Zahid Sardar05.05.12 -
Thinkk Studio
Trained as interior architects, Decha Archjananun and Ploypan Theerachai of THINKK Studio are fascinated by the interplay of contrasting materials in architecture, and frequently combine industrial...
written by: Lindsay J. Westley04.23.12 -
Yota Kakuda
A self-proclaimed “collector of old stuff,” designer Yota Kakuda finds inspiration in vintage objects found in junk shops and flea markets. He is constantly gathering vinyl records ...
written by: Tiffany Chu04.23.12 -
Industrious Design
With its fresh take on minimalism, French design duo Normal Studio is ushering in a new machine age.
written by: Laetitia Wolffphotos by: Jens Passoth12.27.11 -
Hometown Hero
Dow Chemical put Midland on the map, but architect and local scion Alden B. Dow made it the most modern town in Michigan.
written by: Aaron Britt08.29.11 -
Hella Cool
In her Berlin studio, rogue Dutch designer Hella Jongerius creates colorful, covetable objects that meld the handmade and the mass-produced in surprising new ways.
written by: Jane Szitaphotos by: Oliver Mark06.20.11 -
Printed Matter
Considering his cache of bold-faced employers, the Swiss-born graphic designer and photographer Herbert Matter (1907–1984) should loom larger in the mid-century design canon than he does....
written by: Aaron Britt05.05.11 -
New Media: Sight Unseen
Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov met as editors at the venerable I.D. in 2005 and both developed a passion for peeking behind the scenes at the creative processes of designers—–access...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Elizabeth Weinberg12.15.10 -
Furniture Design: Misewell
Growing up in southeastern Wisconsin, Vincent and Paul Georgeson used to hang out in their father’s basement woodshop, fascinated by the process of building things. It was a formative...
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Daniel Shea12.15.10 -
Industrial Design: Atelier Takagi
After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a degree in furniture design, Jonah Takagi traveled the world for four years with indie-rock musician Benjy Ferree. When he had...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Elizabeth Weinberg12.15.10 -
The Opulent Modernism of Platner
For Warren Platner, whose modernist pedigree would make any contemporary designer squeal, design was all about the right groovy palette for the right glitzy project. Minimalists need not apply.
written by: Alexandra Lange11.19.10 -
Design Within Research
Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has done it all, from spoons to umbrellas to lights, but he’s best known for his data-driven chairs. We dropped in on his Munich studio to sit...
written by: Sally McGranephotos by: Oliver Mark06.18.10 -
Young Turks
Istanbul modern? In a word, it’s Autoban. With their east-meets-west twist on mid-century classics, this young duo has jump-started their hometown’s design scene.
written by: Virginia Gardiner03.04.10 -
Eero Dynamic
Eero Aarnio’s persistent quest for functional forms and manufacturing processes has been at the center of his iconic and prolific career.
written by: Asko Ahokasphotos by: Joanna Moorhouse01.12.10
