Omer Arbel: Material Thought
Phaidon’s recently released monograph on the work of Israel-born, Vancouver-based polymath Omer Arbel reveals an extraordinarily diverse practice spanning…
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Philippe Starck ponders the environment with first product for Andreu World
Spanish furnishings manufacturer Andreu World’s first collaboration with the French juggernaut that is Philippe Starck is a remarkably minimal new sustainable…
Denizens of Design: Giving the Bottom Line a Designer’s Touch
Business school graduates will tell you a common axiom hammered into them during their studies is “do not mix business and emotion.” But for Dyonne Fashina, not…
New workstation design blends into nature
Although the reality of Canada is that we are an urban country, our collective self-perception is a country imbedded in nature and the wilderness. Which is why…
Light Side of the Moon
SAGA Space Architects, a Danish design practice specializing in outer space habitation research, wondered the same thing. With the goal of developing a Moon…
The Impact of Light
Light makes things visible, and always has an impact. In many cases, we fail to see the significance because the eye is a good-natured organ. It tolerates poor…
STACKLAB continues to explore systems-based design with an expanded Ash Collection
The Ash Collection is an innovative system of versatile furnishings born out of the challenges that face regional manufacturing. The twelve-piece collection…
TCNA releases first industry-wide Material Ingredient Guide
The Tile Council of North America (TCNA) has officially released its Material Ingredient Guide publication, the first of its kind by any building product…
Pearson Lloyd creates a stairlift for the design generation
Stairlift technology has emerged from a legacy of awful television commercials in the early 1990s that became the butt of endless jokes and is now the focus of…
Pod People are Coming!
Although unquestionably a product of the pandemic, most agree the absorption of home-work-life will not disappear once workspaces re-open, putting pressure on…