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Videos

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  Emerging Designer: Jason Miller

  The first subject in our emerging designers series, Jason Miller draws on threadbare bits of Americana, serving up something entirely new with a sly, subversive spin.

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  Emerging Designer: Jake Barton

  Jake Barton is designing a new breed of museum, one that favors local voices over curatorial authority. They are places for dialogue, not lectures.

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  Emerging Designers: Della Valle Bernheimer

  From the creative foment of Brooklyn comes Della Valle Bernheimer, a young design firm committed to new forms of collaborating.

Articles

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  Webcast: Design for Emerging Markets

  If you have an interest in humanitarian design and product development, you'll want to tune in this Thursday, October 29, to a live online seminar "Designing Products for Emerging…

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  101 Product Design

  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.

• Pattern Recognition in Review

  Pattern Recognition is the debut monograph from New York based architecture practice Leven Betts. Not to be confused with the William Gibson novel of the same name, this Pattern Recognition opens…

Tips

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  How to Build a Lighting Concept

  I’m a fan of floor lighting plus a couple of small table lamps for the living room. Use ambient lighting and low-wattage warm bulbs to create a relaxed atmosphere.

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  How to Pick the Right Light

  Lighting should be very task oriented. If you plan on sitting at the sofa and reading, the lamp has to be at the right reading site. Keep decorative lamps for overhead lighting and all the other…

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  How to Pick the Right Storage Piece

  Choose a straightforward storage device that includes display space for showcasing art, pottery, and a couple nice pieces of china but allows the rest to be closed off.

Products

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  Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century

  An exhaustive history of modern Western urban-planning theory and practice, Cities of Tomorrow tackles everything from major figures and events that shaped 20th-century urban life to fundamental…

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  Designing the High Line: Gansevoort Street to 30th Street

  The High Line reclamation and landscape project has captivated us for the last decade with its psychedelic vision of a 21st-century hanging garden. Transforming an abandoned railway viaduct into…

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  79 Short Essays on Design

  Using wide-ranging topics including business, art, economics, history, war, politics, film, and books, Bierut explores the relationship between graphic design and the multiple facets of…

Events

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  Design USA: Contemporary Innovation

  This exhibition features outstanding contemporary achievements in American architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, communication design, corporate design, interaction…

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  Design S: Swedish Design Award

  This exhibition will feature 19 shortlisted entries to Sweden’s biggest design award competition, which focuses on design for sustainability issues including climate, the environment, the…

• Project Earth Day Fashion Show and Design Competition

  Project Earth Day is dedicated to green design principles and sustainability, and to providing a platform for environmental responsibility and innovation within the fashion industry. Brought to you…

Dwell Collections

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  Emerging Designers

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  Geigy's Graphic Design

  Design Musem Zurich's current show Good Design, Good Business showcases the great graphic design from 1940-1970 of the Swiss chemical company Geigy.

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  Design Leaders