The memory of late architect Charles Gwathmey, who passed away 3 August this year, is being honored with a new eponymous professorship at the Yale School of Architecture faciliated by the generosity of American designer Ralph Lauren.
Lauren and his wife, Ricky, shared a close friendship with Gwathmey, whose vast design résumé includes the Holocaust Memorial [...]

The lovely editors over at Dezeen have compiled a list of the site’s top ten stories on watches and clocks, all of which have us frantically checking our bank accounts to see if we can afford to buy every single one featured.
Time may be constant, but that doesn’t mean our timepieces have to be boring.
We [...]

Nada se leva is a dynamic duo from Brazil whose streamlined, Baroque-inspired designs are garnering a lot of attention.
Recently featured by the blog 2Modern Design Talk and chosen as one of the 100 “most important young designers from around the world” by &fork, Nada se leva is an exciting design team that creates fresh, interesting, [...]

Scenario 1: You’re most happy when you discover a unique and fabulous treat from a well-hidden store (or amongst the chaff of cyber space).
Scenario 2:  You’re an unknown designer/illustrator with amazing talent – but no place to put it.
Where do you two meet? At Envelop, an online store that takes independent designers’ amazing illustrations and plops them (in an eco-friendly [...]

Austrian designer Sonja Bäumel has created conceptual pieces of clothing meant to remind us of — get this — the bacteria that is constantly on our skin.
Her project, (In)visible Membrane, explores the idea that the healthy, natural human body is host to thousands of bacteria — a fact which we, especially in our hysteria over [...]

You’re just about to leave the house when you turn around way too quickly and snag your favourite sweater on the corner of a table and create an irreparable hole that forces you to drown in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s to cope with the loss of one of your most treasured garments.
Relax.  We’ve [...]

Move over, doilies. Cut paper’s just gotten a whole lot edgier. The New York Museum of Art and Design’s newest exhibit, “Slash: Paper Under the Knife,” showcases contemporary artists who use paper (a veritable endangered species in this digital age) in innovative ways. The result is an absolutely breathtaking array of human bodies, intricate machinery, and explosive clouds crafted [...]

Once a year, in the city of New York, a magical thing happens. Doors that are locked, open. Gates meant to keep the masses out, let us in.  And we the people get the chance to explore. That’s right, October 10th and 11th marked the 7th annual Open House New York weekend, which meant that New [...]

The laptop of the future may not only rock, it will roll. OK – despite the lameness of that pun (we couldn’t resist!) – the new “rolltop” announced by Orkin Design looks anything but lame. It’s just a concept for now, but the rolltop will have a flexible OLED display that unfurls into a 17-inch multitouch screen [...]