“What Walmart is doing is ridiculous,” says John Edelman, CEO of both of Herman Miller Consumer and Design Within Reach. “They could be innovators in design, and this is just a cheap shortcut.”
MEET DESIGN’S NEW CATEGORY: RESIMERCIAL
If you haven’t done the math, take our word for it: Residential plus commercial equals resimercial, or interior design for commercial spaces that embraces the qualities of the home.
When offices die, how do you design an office chair?
When you look around at your office, what do you see? Maybe it seems like just a bunch of chairs and tables, a few conference rooms. But that entire set up is built on an assumption about what work means, inherited from the 19th century.
Pablo Pardo on the Role of NeoCon in the LED Revolution
The founder of the lighting company Pablo, designer Pablo Pardo has launched a series of award-winning LED solutions at NeoCon.
The Barcelona Chair Wins the Wall Street Journal Unimprovable Award
Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 design is recognized by editors as timeless and perfect in Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything magazine.
Tom Powers, CEO of Global Interior Architecture Firm IA, on the Changing Designer-Client Relationship
In his Q&A with Metropolis, Powers also discusses how technology drives workplace design and how NeoCon is evolving.
Design Thinking and the Innovative Workplace
Design Thinking involves a creative, agile mindset that incorporates the ability to ask questions from a variety of vantage points.
From Director to Designer: Q+A With HOK’s Sybille Herwig
Sybille Herwig talks about her experiences transitioning from life in the entertainment business to a career as an interior design professional in HOK’s Los Angeles office.
Microsoft Hololens Could Change How Architects Work
While Layout works in traditional VR, it doesn’t just drag and drop these objects inside a virtual room.
Design Duo Yabu Pushelberg on the Bizarre Beauty of their Favorite Klaus Nienkämper Chair
Jasper Morrison discusses new additions to VITRA collection
Designboom met with Jasper Morrison, both on the occasion of maison et objet spring 2018 at VITRA‘s new showroom in Paris.
Perkins+Will’s Director of Interior Design on Creating Agile Workplaces
Design veteran Brent Capron sits down with Metropolis to discuss workplace trends, the firm's in-house research, and the significance of NeoCon.
Listen to Episode 56 of Clever: Jerry Helling
In this episode of Clever, President and Creative Director of Bernhardt Design, Jerry Helling, tells Amy and Jaime about how he grew up on a ranch in a remote town with 11 people in his graduating class before venturing to USC and a potential career in Hollywood.
Four Ways TED2018 Will Make You Think
It’s no surprise that one of those themes was artificial intelligence. Spectacular tech demonstrations have always been a feature of the TED stage, and that was true again this year.
This interactive furniture line runs on solar power
Furniture designers explore what it is to be sustainable
Turn Your Office Into a Giant Pegboard
Designed with the intention of turning the entire office space into a giant pegboard, PEG’s accessories locate into the holes found on the table top and travel down into the table’s legs.
Step Into Steelcase’s Virtual Office Space to Experience Future Furniture Design
The word innovation doesn’t usually bring to mind wastebaskets. But back in 1914, a Grand Rapids, Michigan–based furniture company received a patent to make something the world had never seen: a strong, durable, fireproof, low-cost wastebasket.
The Story Behind The Iconic Zig-Zag Chair
In the early 1930s, Dutch department store Metz & Co. asked Gerrit Rietveld to do something unprecedented: design a chair for mass production.
Launch of Authentic Design and Rottet Collection in Milan
Design leader Lauren Rottet’s new book and furniture collection on display at Rizzoli Galleria, April 16-22.