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Explore - Industrial Design
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'West Coast Modern' by Zahid Sardar
Frequent Dwell contributor Zahid Sardar has two new books out that would be welcome additions to any architecture or industrial-design library: West Coast Modern published by Gibbs Smith and 100...
written by: Diana Budds01.29.13 -
"Living in a Modern Way" at LACMA
For their part in the citywide "Pacific Standard Time" exhibition, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has just opened “California Design 1930–1965: Living in a...
written by: Erika Heet10.06.11 -
2013 Salone Internazionale del Mobile Furniture Preview
Hello, sports fans! That's right: Milan's annual design fair happens next week, and it's big, bad, and enough of an endurance test to qualify as spring training. As you read back in February,...
written by: Kelsey Keith04.05.13 -
Abe's Penny Live at Artseen in Miami
The worlds of visual arts and creative writing intersect this month in Miami at "Abe's Penny Live," an event hosted by Brooklyn publishing house, Abe's Penny in conjunction with "O,...
written by: Meredith MacKenzie04.18.11 -
Absolutely Fabricated
We talked to a handful of movers and makers to see what's in store for the wider manufacturing world.
03.26.10 -
America's Regional Design
Sure, buying American is something to get behind—we're celebrating it all month long—but if for you buying local is about makers across town, not across state lines, then these...
written by: Aaron Britt09.13.11 -
American Made: Louisville Slugger
I'm in the process of putting together a big story on American-made design for the October issue, and it's been quite a revelation to learn precisely which American classics are still made on these...
written by: Aaron Britt04.28.11 -
Amsterdam Retail Therapy
On a drizzly afternoon in Holland's capital city, I took to the streets, armed with a map, a copy of a great little guide book, Amsterdam Made by Hand, and absolutely no problem getting lost along...
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Jordan Kushins06.27.11 -
An Introduction to Manufacturing
If the design world feels like an endless parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin it all. Take a look at how leading manufacturers make what...
written by: Patrick Di Justo03.17.10 -
An Introduction to Universal Design
Mention universal design and see your companions’ eyes start glazing over. Though formally flashy chairs and posh penthouses may reside at the sexier end of the design world, universal design...
written by: Graham Pullin02.09.10 -
Anna Carnick's Design Voices
In her new e-book, Design Voices, Anna Carnick puts eight designers—Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, Stefan Sagmeister, Giulio Cappellini, Ross Lovegrove, Tokujin Yoshioka, Dror Benshetrit,...
written by: Diana Budds04.01.12 -
Barcelona, Day One
When the plane's wheels touched ground this morning at 7am, it was still dark in Barcelona. We, a motley crew of design-website editors, had just spent a long eight hours flying over the Atlantic...
written by: Amanda Dameronphotos by: Amanda Dameron01.26.11 -
Best of Paris: 2012 Maison & Objet
Maison & Objet, the annual winter design show in Paris, ended last week, and it's taken seven whole days to catch our collective breath and clean off our camera's memory card. The immeubles...
written by: Kelsey Keith02.01.12 -
Best of SF 20 Modernism Show
This weekend's SF20 Modernism Show and Sale opened to the public this morning at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. Dwell editors Aaron Britt and Sarah Rich took a spin around the floor and found...
written by: Aaron Britt09.25.09 -
Bodum Double-Wall Canteen Mugs
One of my favorite wedding gifts I received was a set of Danish housewares firm Bodum’s glass-walled Canteen tumblers. I drink from them every day, set them out when guests come over, feel a...
written by: Aaron Britt07.27.09 -
Building the Maxon House: Week 13
In our latest Backstory series, Seattleite Lou Maxon recounts the thrills and trials of ditching the suburbs, buying property, and designing and building a modern house with Tom...
written by: Lou Maxonphotos by: Thor Radford05.25.11 -
Charlie Cannon and Innovation Studio
Charlie Cannon is the energetic founder and teacher of RISD's award-winning Innovation Studio. An interdisciplinary class in its eleventh year, the studio invites industrial design, landscape...
written by: Tiffany Chu10.05.09 -
Christina Fesmire's Swing and a Hit
Christina Fesmire, an industrial design graduate from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, created the "Fugle Swing." Intrigued by the swing's nod to Scandinavian bentwood design...
written by: Diana Budds01.31.11 -
Cloth Extension Cord
This month we're beating the drum of American design, with a special emphasis on those objects you just figure are bound to be made overseas. A fine example, and a remarkably handsome one at that,...
written by: Aaron Britt09.12.11 -
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
