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Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Sebastian Wrong, Design Development Director for the UK-based Established & Sons.

In 1892, when John Muir founded the Sierra Club, the only "web" he knew about was the kind spun by spiders, and social...

If choosing paint colors doesn’t give you a headache, the fumes probably will—unless you pick from the growing array formulated...

Whether you consider it democracy at work or architectural sacrilege, the online retailer houseplans.com has begun selling...

This week with spring settling in, the Dwell editors took inspiration from flowers made of leather and wood, and architectural...

With all the pork belly, lardo and bacon-in-everything flying around these days, it was only a matter of time before swine made...

“I’ve had my share of so-called glamorous architecture and I found it more boring than this.

Design competitions are all the rage these days, with the Internet making it easy to gather and disseminate good ideas from...

If FEMA didn't drum up enough of a bad reputation with its immediate response to Hurricane Katrina, the nails certainly went into...

Today is the last day to enter a submission to phase one of Dwell's Innovate It! design contest.

Freedom of Creation—In recent decades, computer-aided design (CAD) has transcended the screen, thanks to the advent of automatic...

Many an indoor planter has passed across the pixels of design blogs lately, always a clear symbol of sustainability, modern...

With new laws limiting water consumption in many places, it shouldn't be a surprise that drought-tolerant and native landscaping...

The Museum of Modern Art's Design Store has been running regionally-sourced collections in their retails shops and online.

This week the Dwell editors spotted gems from many corners of the blogosphere, from films about monsters to architecture for...

We editors have started to put together the panels and programming for Dwell on Design 09 in Los Angeles, and I'm very excited to...

We'll surely never cease to marvel at the architectural feats humans accomplished long before the age of computers, but it's...

While in Washington DC we popped into Founding Farmers, the District’s only LEED Gold certified restaurant and bar.

San Franciscans will not want to miss Claudio Monteverdi’s opera The Return of Ulysses, staged and directed by artist William...

When I think of biomimicry—a smart, sustainable approach to design that mimics nature's forms and functions—I usually think of...

Be they medieval torches blazing on battlements or bug zappers crackling to life with each new victim, the need for outdoor...

Between rising rates of independent and freelance careers and the many changes to corporate work policies that have accompanied...

Now that gas prices in the U.S. are hovering around two dollars a gallon, what's happened to green driving?

Now that "salvage" has as many connotations with environmental sensitivity, creativity, and resourcefulness as with the need to...

In Palm Springs, California, “midcentury modern” connotes more than just Eames chairs and glass walls; it also hints at Hollywood...

Whether or not you regard spring as an opportunity for spring cleaning, Inhabitat encourages you to do some spring greening, with...

Classical yet current, Bordeaux is a city that celebrates the details that comprise the whole.

Northern California's wine country has the advantage of built-in open space preservation by virtue of its indispensable...

As part of the cultural countdown to the winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010, media art group Springboard—a trio composed of...

We love Austin for its mobile eateries, creative design, and independent spirit, and next time we visit, we’ll have one more...

The only structure that famed architect Le Corbusier ever designed for himself has been reconstructed inside the Royal Institute...

Today begins Dwell.com's Friday round-up series, in which the editors take a look back at our week in Web-reading and call out a...

One of the best things about the Internet is the ability to virtually attend lectures we couldn't get to in real-time.

The new movie Tokyo!—a triptych of short films directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho—presents three increasingly...

I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics.

If your manuscript is far from being illuminated, it’s time to drop the task at hand and find a new lamp to read by.