Aaron Taylor Harvey studied cinema but his love of architecture led him into a job designing offices for Airbnb in San Francisco.
Careers guide: Aaron Taylor Harvey explains his path to designing offices for Airbnb
Why interior design of the future will be more interactive than we can imagine
I see a near future when technology is literally woven into the fabric of everyday objects, when interiors will be designed as interactive, and decorative objects will no longer be static.
Designer Tom Chung on His Beam Lamp for Muuto
The anodized aluminum desk light—fashioned after an old-style car’s headlight—shines from LEDs at both ends, one side dimming as the other brightens.
In Design: Cameron Fry's Theodore Bench-Desk System
Cameron Fry, the owner and creative director of Liqui Group, led the development of this desk, which attempts to bridge the gap between the home and the office sustainably, and with style …
9 Iconic Herman Miller Designs Everyone Should Know
It’s difficult to wrap arms around the importance of Herman Miller’s contributions to American design.
Watch: Dieter Rams’s 10 Principles of Design, illustrated by his ingenious products
Every designer alive has heard of Dieter Rams’s 10 Principles of Design–the legendary designer’s quick-reference rules for making products, developed in his early days at Braun.
A Private Jet Decked Out in Hermès Leather? This Workshop Will Make It Happen
In a suburb outside Paris, a little-known group of artisans are making Hermès surfboards, motorcycles, boxing gloves, and more fantastical creations.
How Florence Knoll invented the modern office
Florence Knoll Bassett, the brilliant and influential architect, designer, and businesswoman who built the design and furniture studio Knoll into an icon of midcentury design and whom the New York Times in 1964 called “today the single most powerful figure in the field of modern design,” passed away at the age of 101 on Friday.
See a chair co-designed by AI
Toronto-based design research company Radical Norms worked with a computer vision algorithm, powered by a Google API, to design a chair.
Florence Knoll Bassett, 101, Designer of the Modern American Office, Dies
Florence Knoll Bassett, a pioneering designer and entrepreneur who created the modern look and feel of America’s postwar corporate office with sleek furniture, artistic textiles and an uncluttered, free-flowing workplace environment, died on Friday in Coral Cables, Fla. She was 101.
Three Design Influencers Weigh in on the Future of Work
Friday Five with Carl Gustav Magnusson
Sweden-born Carl Gustav Magnusson is one of the most renowned industrial designers today as he continues leaving his memorable mark on the modern design work.
Instagram is reshaping the $10B business of interior design
The platform has changed the way we discover design–but it’s also raised questions about originality, authenticity, and what makes a “real” designer.
A LIFE IN CHAIRS WITH INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER DON CHADWICK
In a career spanning six decades, the meticulous Los Angeles–based industrial designer has worked tirelessly to devise fewer than a dozen commercial objects.
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.