In a career spanning six decades, the meticulous Los Angeles–based industrial designer has worked tirelessly to devise fewer than a dozen commercial objects.
A LIFE IN CHAIRS WITH INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER DON CHADWICK
In The Mind Of The Designer: Jeannette Altherr On Her Work For Arper
The multidisciplinary studio specializes in product design & development, strategic consulting, creative direction, art direction and ephemeral architecture for internationally recognized design companies.
Millennial Pink is dead, and Pantone’s Color of the Year killed it
Meet Living Coral. It’s the color of resistance, of tech company rebrands, and of 1960s Americana–a familiar and energizing hue that you’re about to see everywhere.
Ideo breaks its silence on design thinking’s critics
Ideo partner Michael Hendrix discusses how design thinking can be used as a superficial tool to make a company seem innovative–even when it’s not.
Yves Béhar responds to Pittsburgh synagogue shooting with Lies Cost Lives graphic
Designer Yves Béhar has created this graphic in the wake of the mass-shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue to warn against rising anti-semitism in the US, which he blames on president Donald Trump's "current culture of lies".
This McKinsey study of 300 companies reveals what every business needs to know about design for 2019
For years, the design community has been working to build the case that its work has significant business value. A groundbreaking new study by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company can put a number on the impact design has on business.
VITRA soft work sofa system by barber & osgerby replaces the desk archetype
Returning to Orgatec 2018 to further their ideas on the future of work, VITRA debuts the ‘soft work’ sofa system by Barber & Osgerby.
A new Ikea report is an unsettling look at life in the 21st century
None of it has very much to do with furniture, which is perhaps a reflection of a moment when buying things as self-expression has taken a back seat to self-care for consumers.
Pantone’s latest colors are the ultimate sign of the times
Consisting of 200 colors–ranging from more traditional silvers and golds, to more aggressive purple sequin or blue diode–it’s meant as a reference point for anyone developing products today.
Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief
Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design.
Fierce and fashionable: Designers turn commercial interiors materials into wearable art
Stantec Sacramento interior designer walks the runway in dress crafted from carpet, window shades, and upholstery—for a good cause.
Dieter Rams wants Silicon Valley to stop
In Gary Hustwit’s highly anticipated new documentary “Rams,” the legendary industrial designer indicts the world he helped create.
This long-lost Eames design is being produced for the first time
What can real-life design learn from virtual worlds?
Leaps in technology have brought our everyday lives closer to the storylines of science fiction films.
Design thinking is the opposite of inclusive design
Design thinking is business’s favorite buzzword, and it’s helped bring design to the table in the corporate world.
CEO’s Talk Workplace – Interview With Convene’s Ryan Simonetti
Convene CEO Ryan Simonetti created a more human-centric office environment with hospitality at its core.
Dieter Rams is the Godfather of Design
So many people these days dream of blocking out the noise of the modern world. Rams, who doesn’t use a computer or mobile phone, never plugged in.
Primo Orpilla On His Design Process, Measuring Results, And More
Ikea is developing furniture for gamers
Ergonomics, the domain of intricate office chairs and carpel tunnel-mitigating computer mice, is coming to Ikea—and not in the way you might expect.
Ikea’s head of design steps down
In a surprising move, Marcus Engman, the head of design at Ikea since 2012, is leaving the world’s largest furniture company for his own design consultancy.