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Now that laptops and iPods have become like extra appendages for most of us, tangled cords and unsightly nests of cables are a...

The Names Brand is one of those incredibly simple business ideas that's either a stroke of genius or a flash in the pan (or maybe...

In 2004, Jon Dennis and Rob Zinn co-founded blankblank, a modern design and manufacturing company in Sacramento, California.

Flora Grubb Gardens, the hippest plant merchant in the Bay Area, takes up residence in a new building as green as it is...

There's some citizen adbusting going on in France where groups describing themselves as "deboulonneurs" or "unscrewers," are...

Pretty Loaded is an online museum of "preloaders," those animated countdowns that inform visitors that their mind-blowing web...

Those looking for a more down-to-earth option might consider wallowing in a pigsty, which is essentially what designer Amir Sanei...

Compelling custom solutions to off-the-shelf problems are often hard to come by. But landscape architects James A. Lord and...

“I kept pushing the idea of doing a new kind of tree house further and further, trying to find the best structure, the best...

“This was really a parameter-driven project,” explains Lukasz Kos, a Toronto-based designer and cofounder of the architecture...

Next month, Chad Ludeman, president of the firm PostGreen, will move into the first completed 100K House, an infill development...

At the symbolic heart of Philadelphia lies John F. Kennedy (JFK) Plaza, more commonly called Love Park after a Robert Indiana...

Botanist Patrick Blanc has been bringing the wilds of the rainforests to Parisian walls for over 30 years, most recently at the...

An exhibit up at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC chronicles the museum's initial conception, and the Canadian, Philip...

As the ill effects of many a mattress become crystal-clear, never before has the saying “You snooze, you lose” held more weight.

Trees, cocktails, Borgnirne—we’re all in this together, cycling in and out of our earthly existence.

With the lightness and imagination of origami and the mathematical exactitude of digital design, architect Murray Legge’s...

Quebec City architect Pierre Thibault has designed three Habitats Légers, or Light Habitats—small structures installed in the...

This “landscaped outdoor room” near Farrar Pond, Massachusetts, uses simple construction to create complex effects.

It could have been a Sheetrock box, but as the house’s most frequently used point of entry, it deserved the same architectural...

While researching innovative ways in which to use concrete, Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi’s light-transmitting concrete...

Tina Roth Eisenberg runs a successful graphic design company but is perhaps better known as the author behind the design centric...

Not all pictures are worth a thousand words.

The refrigerator in your kitchen may be humming a pricey song—to the tune of hundreds of dollars and thousands of kilowatts a...

I posted recently about a great looking spring lecture series at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

If you read Dwell's February 2009 Process section, you saw the inner workings of the Marmol Radziner prefab factory, where they...

While styles, and items in the overhead compartment, may shift, these comely carry-ons will make you feel like a member of the...

Gary Hustwit’s new film Objectified isn’t about women or using sex to sell goods and services, though he’s been asked that...

It’s no secret that we’re suckers for letterpress here at Dwell, and we're delighted to see the new stationery line from...

Whether you want to replace your drizzly dud or indulge in a decadent deluge, these showerheads will wash your ills away.

The first misconception about going solar is that it is expensive.

Most designers, be they graphic or interior, consult their Pantone fan guide when considering hues.

Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors.

Located in a hidden valley on the picturesque Izu Peninsula, a few hours west of Tokyo, the Watanabe Residence, designed by...

Six weeks after moving from a “gorgeous custom house with huge gardens” in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, into an apartment a...

Gerard Kitchener is fond of talking about the weather, especially as it pertains to Waratah Bay in southeastern Victoria,...