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 light and compensates for it unconsciously. However, this is strenuous, and means that good lighting is particularly important indoors. But what is good lighting? How do planners…

August 18, 2021

Products

STACKLAB continues to explore systems-based design with an expanded Ash Collection

Ash Collection | A1, A4, B2, C3. Shown in: Cast Bronze and Diseased Ash. 2021 Visualization: STACKLAB Artwork: Bradley Wood The Ash Collection is an innovative system of versatile furnishings born out of the challenges that face regional manufacturing. The twelve-piece collection of seats and tables features a diseased Ashwood base and cast bronze top; fully…

July 27, 2021

News

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 industry. Announced at Coverings 2021, this Material Ingredient Guide provides information about the material ingredients used industry-wide by North American tile, mortar, and grout manufacturers, provides in-depth health assessments of those materials,…

July 13, 2021

Products

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 a cadre of industrial designers that bring with them some serious clout and a bevy of design awards to their credit. Specifically, we’re talking about the unveiling…

July 8, 2021

Products

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 designers to rethink how residential space can support that mix. Perhaps inevitably, one growing fixture of the office environment that has come home have been pods. For example, theHUB Pod by Indiana-based YOURspace come…

June 4, 2021

Products

Surface Treatments: On All Sides

April 16, 2021

Main Slider Projects

Future Ways of Hybrid Working

April 6, 2021

Scene

DesignTO: Jamie Wolfond

Like all of us forced to adapt to pandemic-related separation protocols, DesignTO had to get creative with programming for its January 2021 festival. One such example was Ask Me Anything, an online initiative aiming to foster learning about the design process by creating direct access to a designer and the public. Toronto-based Jamie Wolfond gamefully…

March 23, 2021

Projects

Cinema-inspired elevator designs raise spirit and body

February 25, 2021

Scene

DesignTO 2021 highlights

February 20, 2021