Illustrations

A 18 by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Image courtesy the Museum of Modern Art.

Max Bill's 1928 watercolor Der Eilbote is one of the works of art in the exhibitions that dates to the original school. New pieces from contemporary voices like Konstantin Grcic and Hella Jongerius complement the originals and display the lasting influence of the movement.

I loved this early sketch for the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Imagine if it were pink!

Chris wanted to make sure that they would still be functional, so they came up with simple formulas that guided the process: speaker = sound = screech owl; coasters = water = whale; dards = memory = elephant. They then need to figure out how to do recreate the most minimal gestures to capture the essence of the animal.

The working color palettes are hues of pinks but Campbell is musing about introducing blues and indigos.

Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier (Martino Fine Books, 2014). The famous collection of essays proclaims that a house is “a machine for living in.”

Eileen Gray: The Private Painter, Courtesy of Osborne Samuel.

Architecture render by Srđan Nađ

Dordoni's design for Buds was inspired by blossoms, petals, fruit, and other shapes found in nature.

“Technical products like hi-fi fit more easily into all kinds of surroundings than those old furniture look-alike ones.”—Dieter Rams, designer

Yale University student Michael Miller reimagined Sint Lucas under the guise of an OMA-style drawing (with Alex Wall). [via Abitare]

FAT’s Hoogvliet Heerlijkheid via David Hockney, drawn by Yale student Kara Biczykowski. [via Abitare]

Spread from "Goods 2 - Interior Products from Sketch to Use" by Frame Publishers