When not working in design, Sarah Rich writes, talks and forecasts about food and consumer culture.

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...
Morphosis FLOAT House for NOLA
The Make It Right Foundation has gotten loads of press over the last few years, thanks in large part to its ultra-celebrity...
Craft Culture Face-Off
On the surface, craft culture may seem as soft and fuzzy as a skein of hand-dyed yarn, but as I learned at the American Craft...
Tanya Aguiniga Crafted Classics
I'm in the air en route to Minneapolis for the American Craft Council's annual conference, where a number of writers, artists,...
City Walks New York
A trip to New York City is inevitably a whirlwind, whether it's your first visit or your five hundredth.
From Italy: Recycled Tile Wallpaper
Our first stop on day one of our week of tile-mania at Cersaie was at the booth of tile manufacturer Trend, an Italian company...
Reports from Italy: Trends in Tile
I spent last week at Cersaie, the annual trade show held each year in Bologna, Italy, featuring the latest in ceramic tiles and...
Reviving Neutra with Hive Living
We recently received a letter from a reader, Kristy Krone, after she read the article Hive Design in our September issue, which...
Mobile Cottages for Arctic Tourism
While most Dwell readers know Artek as the Finnish design company founded by Alvar and Aino Aalto, there's another Artek not too...
Friday Finds 9.11.09
A great sigh of relief gave way to early anticipation as we sent off our first ever Dwell Special Issue last week.
Architecture + Food = Stable Cafe
San Francisco's Mission District is known for its vibrant and often contrasting cultures—Mexican paleta wagons share the sidewalk...
OAN's Classroom Design Winner
Earlier this year we wrote about Open Architecture Network's challenge to create a better classroom design that can accommodate...
Green Pocket Tiles
If you aspire to have a little kitchen garden for herbs and baby greens, these Green Pockets would be an elegant place to start.
HIB-System: Snap Together a House
You may not have realized it at the time, but if you played with LEGOs a lot as a kid you were giving yourself good training for...
The Carter School Project
This summer, the Master of Architecture Program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design ran the first hands-on project in...
Friday Finds 8.28.09
This week at Dwell as the chilly summer gives way to the warmest, sunniest months in San Francisco's calendar, the troops have...
Hungry? Print Yourself a Meal
Every year Electrolux Design Lab runs a student competition for innovative household appliances, and every year the challenge...
Lund & Paarmann's Hot Seats
The Danish architecture and design firm Lund & Paarmann have some striking new seating debuting in just a few days at CODE09, an...
Passive Houses in Stockholm
Back in early 2008, we wrote about a new suburban development by Swedish architecture firm Smedshammar + Holmberg, which was...
Friday Finds 8.21.09
This week at Dwell we've been thinking a lot about the future, from the announcement of the visionary winners of our Reburbia...
Unseen Realities
Since we've spent much of the last six weeks sorting through and thinking about ideas for the future of suburbia, it was a...
Reburbia Winners Announced!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2009 Reburbia Competition, sponsored jointly by Dwell and Inhabitat.
Designy-ness vs. Design
Where is the line between design and "designy-ness"? A recent essay got us thinking about how consumers identify real innovation...
Friday Finds 8.14.09
This week at the Dwell office we've been working on our November issue, which will feature a collection of beautiful homes from...
Rent an Architectural Masterpiece
Ever wonder what it would be like to live in a house designed by a world-class architect? The team behind the new venture Living...
Redesign Your Farmers' Market
Now that you have all submitted your designs for the Reburbia competition and cast your vote for the Readers' Choice Award, you...
Reburbia Voting Begins Today!
The time has come! Online voting for the best of the Reburbia competition finalists begins today.
Friday Finds 8.7.09
From Dwell's editorial, photo, and design teams, this week's round-up of blog sightings includes several stellar photographic...
Re-imagining Chinatown
If you are in Los Angeles this weekend (or any time before September 5), be sure to pay a visit to Fifth Floor Gallery to take...
Design Glut's Hookmaker
The entrepreneurial pair at Design Glut has been building a great archive on their site of interviews they've conducted with...
Hive Design
The recent disappearance of vast numbers of worker bees from their colonies sounded an unexpectedly resonant ecological alarm.
Friday Finds 7.31.09
Today is the last day of July and you know what that means...If you haven't yet sent in your submission to the Reburbia...
Friday Finds 7.24.09
While our editor-in-chief Sam Grawe and design director Kyle Blue lunch at the White House today with the honorees of the...
Best of Quebec Architecture 2009
We in the US hear plenty about the AIA's awards of festivals, but not so much about our neighbors up north.
Motel 6 Makeover
It's been said more than once since the recession began that a down economy breeds creativity, born from heightened...
Reminder: Reburbia Ends Friday!
If you haven't yet submitted your entries to the Reburbia competition, time is running out! This Friday, July 31, is the last day...