RSS

poverty

Can Designers Stamp Out Rural Poverty?

Designers, corporate leaders, foundation heads and journalists meet next month in Aspen to solidify plans for a national design center in Alabama to study and alleviate rural poverty.READ»

quarantine

Design Challenge of the Day: What Should Quarantine Look Like?

In the wake of swine flu and body scans, designers reimagine isolation.READ»

blu house

Can Blu Homes Fulfill the Promise of Prefab?

A Boston start-up says its method will at last fulfill the promise of cheap manufactured homes. (But can anybody get a mortgage?)READ»

The Return of Function: The Everyday Design Movement

Why is the design world romancing staplers, pencil holders paper clips and other incidental objects of daily life?READ»

manhattan

Turn Back the Clock: Is Pre-Colonial the Design Vibe of the Moment?

The 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s landfall romances salt marshes and beaver pelts.READ»

chrysler building

Is the New Wave of Super Big Buildings Wretched Excess? Or Is Bigger Still Better?

With the NFL season less than a week old, the new $1.15 billion stadium for the Dallas Cowboys may be the most talked about piece of architecture in the country. Designed by HKS, the go-to architecture firm for splashy sports ...READ»

paris furniture fair

Six Object Lessons in the New Restraint at Maison et Objet

While Americans checked out for the Labor Day interlude, the European design season got underway with Maison et Objet, one of the home furnishings fairs that set the agenda for the design year ahead. Maison is generally regarded as ...READ»

droog-land
DROOG   |  2 comments

New York's Design Scene Is Going Dutch

A series of events and exhibitions by Dutch designers will transform New York into New Amsterdam, at least for the next few weeks.READ»

new-amsterdam-pavilion.jpg

Instant Landmark: New Amsterdam Pavilion

To mark the 400th anniversary of the Dutch arrival, New York unveils a gift from the Netherlands--a spiral-shaped visitor's center where 70,000 daily commuters pass.READ»

leaf.jpg

Which Way Design: Seven Telling Events for the Fall

As surely as weighty new catalogues from Design Within Reach and Ikea land with a thump at your door, the fall design season awaits on the far side of Labor Day. This is the customary moment for design editors to preview fall events. ...READ»

Syndicate content