Topic: Ace Hotel

Funky Fresh: Ace Hotel's New Breed of Design Comes to New York

The New York branch of the Ace Hotel just opened yesterday, and it's a great corrective to the bloated, blinged-out interiors we've come to expect from boutique hotels. Rooms begin at a very reasonable rate for New York--$199 ...READ»

Hot Bike of the Day: The Limited Edition Dutch Master

Industrial-design site Core 77 experiments in co-branding, releasing a bike crafted by a New York artisan.READ»

How the Portland Art Museum Is Bringing Art to the People

Its latest exhibition, China Design Now, uses crowdsourcing and experience design to shift the museum’s role from curator to moderator, and to put the museum in the center of a global conversation.READ»

• Steve McCallion's Beyond the Widget blog

The Portland Art Museum Transforms an Exhibition Into a Social Platform

A new exhibition is a wake-up call for businesses that have been slow to adopt platform thinking. Companies, non-profits and cultural institutions can all learn from its example.READ»

• Steve McCallion's Beyond the Widget blog