The results are an array of projects that promote wellness through design
How Pantone Comes Up With New Colors for Its Authoritative Guide
Pantone—the company behind the ubiquitous booklets of color chips and formulas nearly all designers use to choose and create colors for corporate logos, products, clothes, and more—is the world’s preeminent authority on color. In the years since its creation in the mid-20th century, the Pantone Matching System has become an icon, enjoying cult status in the design world. But even if someone has never needed to design anything in their life, they probably know what a Pantone chip looks like.
A Minimalist Table Inspired by Classroom Desks from KROFT
Doodle Table is a minimalist table created by Toronto-based designer Dustin Kroft of KROFT. The designer prides himself in handcrafting pieces with honest materials based on a design language inspired by the purity that comes from a commitment to purpose and function.
Hem Founder Petrus Palmér on the Design Industry's Radical Changes
Be Original Americas welcomes its first architecture firm, Studio O+A
Be Original Americas is a nonprofit that advocates for design that’s authentic, sustainable, ethical, and successful. “The organization is committed to informing, educating and influencing as many people as possible about the value of original design.”
This summer, the organization is expanding its membership to include architecture and design firms across the country.
The 1970s Design Manual That Quietly Shaped Everything You Use Today
The Creative Director Transforming Spaces for Fashion Brands
Clarisse Demory counts the likes of Christophe Lemaire and Sophie Buhai as clients, transforming objects from local hardware stores into covetable homewares.
Hippie Modernism, Italian Style
There’s a trillion-dollar global black market for fake “designer” chairs
Last year, US customs officers seized over $4 million worth of fake chairs. It was the first year that the agency had ever seized containers-full of such unauthorized reproductions, thanks in part to a novel new training that’s turning port inspectors into design connoisseurs.
Playful Seating Inspired by Log Cabins
Do you remember Lincoln Logs from when you were a kid? That’s what immediately comes to mind, well that and log cabins, when taking a look at the Cabin Lounges from DesignByThem. Sarah Gibson & Nicholas Karlovasitis, who go by GibsonKarlo, are the founders of DesignByThem and their latest release features armchairs, lounges, ottomans, and a booth, all of which look as if they were built like a log cabin, hence their name.
Scott Wilson Re-Envisions the Rocker for HBF
Scott Wilson, of design firm MNML, takes the idea of the age-old rocker and elevates it by giving it a modern spin. Designed for HBF, the Fulton Rocker is a sleek, contemporary rocking chair with a generous upholstered seat and wooden accents giving it a timeless silhouette.
The 57 Sofa by Finn Juhl for Onecollection
Renowned Danish architect and designer Finn Juhl introduced the 57 Sofa back in 1957 at Tivoli Gardens and some 40 years passed before before any attention was brought back to the design. It wasn’t until Juhl’s widow, Hanne Wilhelm Hansen, asked Onecollection in 1998 to make one of the sofas for an exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of his passing. Hansen was so happy with the results that she allowed Onecollection to relaunch the design, which eventually led to the company relaunching more than 40 of Finn Juhl’s designs over time.
Watch: How the Eames Bentwood LCW Chair is Made
It's been referred to as both the LCW, for Lounge Chair Wood, and the Eames Plywood Lounge Chair. Whichever you call it, it's a classic piece of 20th-Century design.
Opendesk launches shelf and desk that can both be assembled tool-free
Open-source furniture brand Opendesk has collaborated with designers in London and Chicago to create new two pieces of furniture that can be assembled without glue, screws or hinges.London-based Opendesk – whose business model is based around an online database of designs for digital fabrication – worked with London-based Thor ter Kulve to create a workstation based on Japanese joinery techniques.
This Office-In-A-Box Is A Cubicle You’ll Actually Want To Use
Cubicles are universally panned as a symbol of cloistered office culture and soul-sucking corporate standardization. But in the hands of designer Francesc Rifé, an office in a cube becomes something nostalgically precious.
ARE THE WALLS MOVING?! THESE MODULAR HOMES AND OFFICES CAN TRANSFORM IN HOURS
Even as competitors in the modular construction industry continue to emerge at a breakneck pace, the founders of DIRTT find themselves completely unconcerned with what other companies are doing.
How artisans are keeping Michigan’s legacy of furniture design alive
Before Detroit put America on wheels, on the other side of the state Grand Rapids had already earned a reputation as a manufacturing powerhouse in its own right. Thanks to its Lake Michigan location, the city became a lumber hub in the 1800s; this soon gave rise to enough quality furniture makers to earn Grand Rapids the moniker "Furniture City." Meanwhile, in Detroit, the Murphy Chair Co. would at one point become the world's largest chair manufacturer.
de Dolomieu BLOCK Statuario Marble MacBook Stands
The de Dolomieu BLOCK marble Apple MacBook laptop stands exist within the rarified air of perplexingly prohibitively priced luxury goods marketed for the exclusively wealthy. Every precious flake of Statuario Marble – the most rare type of marble, characterized by its distinct and dramatic veining – is quarried from Carrara, Italy, then machined and hand-worked for seven hours into an elegant pedestal for 12″, 13″, or 15″ MacBook models.
Ceramics Made: Transforming Ceramic Waste Into Terrazzo
BENTU aims to reduce that waste with Ceramics Made, a sustainability project that uses ceramic waste to make terrazzo. Seeking to somehow integrate waste materials back into use in a broad, general way, they began to transform the waste product into everyday furniture that can be produced on a large scale. Thus, Ceramic Made was born. High quality furniture that is tough, even when thin, and has a sleek, classic look that would fit any space.
Edgy offices with tribal designs
The love for African touch designs as is currently the wave with a number of Kenyans embracing kitenge designs for attires and ladies going all natural with hairstyles, has just gone a notch higher with office furniture.