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When graphic designers Jeanette and Mike Abbink left behind their loft in San Francisco—with collected ephemera, a voluminous library, and a parcel of paintings in tow—they didn’t… |
In Ørestad—Copenhagen’s tiny but buzzing new hub of urban development—a mountain rises from the flatlands. |
Best friends since middle school, Casey Patten and David Mazza have a passion for their up-and-coming slice of Washington, DC, matched only by their commitment to making you the best damn sandwich in… |
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When Cecilia Tham and Yoel Karaso of Habitan Architects bought their first-floor apartment in an 1894 block of the Fort Pienc neighborhood of Barcelona in 2005, they knew they were taking a risk. |
It takes nine sheets of veneer, two layers of cotton backing, up to five coats of paint, and 11 days to make a 3107 chair. |
To open our September 2009 apartment-themed issued, we dreamed up Dwell’s ideal apartment. |
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The recent disappearance of vast numbers of worker bees from their colonies sounded an unexpectedly resonant ecological alarm. |
On a former brownfield site across the river from downtown Boston, a renovated turn-of-the-century lithography factory trades in carbon copies for a lighter carbon footprint. |
Jens Risom is enjoying his place in the canon of mid-century furniture designers while also distinguishing himself as a great contemporary designer. |
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From sitting and sleeping to lolling and loitering, these new sleeper sofas are workaholics of relaxation—on either the day or the night shift. |
Last night I went to a corner liquor store to buy some toothpaste. While the beer and candy aisles of the store were heavily trafficked, the back “household goods” section was not. |
Check out this selection of recently released design books culled by our editors and profiled in the September 2009 issue's In The Modern World section. |
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We’re surrounded by legions of products, most of them unremittingly lousy. What separates the good from the bad from the ugly? Take out your well-designed pencils for Product Design 101. |
Good design isn’t inextricably wed to a high price tag. These classic designs run the gamut of types and prices. |
Bad design can be not just unattractive but unhealthy. Steer clear of this trio of second-rate offerings. |
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When it comes to great product design, the material is often the message. Matuse’s wetsuits prove why. |
The Champ
Phaidon Design Classics: 001–999. Phaidon Press, 2006
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We asked three product designers from three different fields what the future holds. Oddly, none of them mentioned crystal balls. |
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Charrette: An intense period of design activity in which a group collaborates to work out a solution to a specific design problem. |
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