With a blend of artistry and commercial savvy, Patricia Urquiola enthralls tony Italian furniture makers—as well as BMW, H&M, and high-end hotel chains such as Mandarin Oriental. It’s a beautiful business.READ»
Philippe Starck, resplendent in black leather pants, came to New York’s Soho House this week to promote his latest project –- a set of sleek stereo speakers he designed for Parrot, a French wireless technology company whose CEO, ...READ»
I'm on a technicality tear.My last mission was getting people to close conversations by saying "I got it".Now I'm sniffing - or rather, picking, at glue.I set out to buy a new toaster. I was hoping to make toast and get on with my ...READ»
It won’t surprise anyone who read this blog that I am not an admirer of the Design Thinking phenomenon. I will call myself a skeptic observer. However I am not directly oppose to it. If you wonder how come, you should consider ...READ»
Like everyone else, the design field braced for the fallout from the financial meltdown. At the time, some of us argued that good things could come from a period of constraint and reexamination. The consumer culture of design had ...READ»
French designer Philippe Starck, better known for interior and product design, is getting into fashion, though Starck would rather not call it that. Working with Scottish cashmere company Ballantyne, the S+arck With Ballantyne line ...READ»
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»
Can products nurture the people and place that produced them? Ten signature designers taking part in the Design for a Living World exhibition show how it might be done.READ»
Philippe Starck is the poster-boy of design excess--witness this hotel in Beverly Hills--but his latest work stumbles into self-parody. The project, "Home Gym Office" is an attempt to integrate gym equipment into an office ...READ»
The world's favorite plastic party girl and the furniture industry's favorite plastic purveyor have teamed up in a brilliant collaboration to celebrate their respective birthdays at the big furniture fair in Milan. ...READ»
With a personality every bit as sweet as a serving of pomegranate frozen yogurt topped with Fruity Pebbles, Pinkberry creative director Yolanda Santosa charmed the audience at the Y Conference with her secret recipe to branding the ...READ»
The toll of the bad economy is far greater than its direct economic impact. It affects virtually all elements of management, including the psyche of the personalities involved. Design, the less familiar and less established of ...READ»
Next month, the design world will collapse upon Milan, for Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the world's biggest contemporary furniture fair. Luckily for design fans eager to taste some eye candy, previews of the best wares are ...READ»
Philippe Starck, resplendent in black leather pants, came to New York’s Soho House this week to promote his latest project –- a set of sleek stereo speakers he designed for Parrot, a French wireless technology company whose CEO, ...READ»
