Design Week: Public Eateries Last week, I attended "Public Eateries: A Conversation on Designing Restaurants in the Era of Food," an event with a slightly...
Thomas Phifer: Light on the Subject Don’t be fooled by his mellow, self-effacing demeanor: Architect Thomas Phifer is a master of his craft, designing daylit,...
All Together Now When Svetlin Krastev and Dessi Nikolova had their second child, they saw two options: Go broke buying a bigger apartment, or...
Smart StudioDesk I've been on an organizing kick recently (see my 'creative storage gift guide' here) and my online meanderings have led me to a...
Design Build: Made Brian Papa, Oliver Freundlich, and Ben Bischoff met their first year at the Yale School of Architecture, when they found...
Eco-Friendly Lighting's New Look YLighting recently alerted us to the new energy-efficient lighting designs they're carrying online.
Design Shop: The Future Perfect When David Alhadeff opened The Future Perfect in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2003, he made it his mission to showcase new and...
Furniture Design: Misewell Growing up in southeastern Wisconsin, Vincent and Paul Georgeson used to hang out in their father’s basement woodshop, fascinated...
Landscape Architecture: Marcel Wilson Landscape architect and urban designer Marcel Wilson describes his practice as “combining things that are made with things that...
Graphic Design: Project Projects Manhattan-based Project Projects may be a graphic design studio, but it works in all dimensions, on the page and off.
Data Modern Furnishings Data Modern Furnishings was founded by Ryan Richardson in the fall of 2010, after 18 months of prototyping and tweaking their...
Eco-Friendly Holiday Cards I've known about Paperless Post for a while now; this past wedding season, a handful of Save-the-Dates arrived in my email inbox...
Q & A with Confetti System Confetti System is two friends—Julie Ho and Nicholas Andersen—who make their living creating festive and kaleidoscopic "party...
Bemz's Bright Idea Last week I met with Lesley Pennington, a Canadian living in Sweden who in 2004 launched Bemz, one of the cleverest companies...
Startin’ Spartan When Jay Atherton and Cy Keener met in grad school at the University of California, Berkeley, they discovered in each other a...
One to Chew On In late 2008, Jon Rubin, an artist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, took over a vacant Pittsburgh storefront with...
Nesting Instinct If I had a fatter wallet, and a big, spreading tree in my backyard (if, indeed, I had a backyard), I would most certainly covet...
Magnetic Walls, and Storage Made Sexy When architects Hayes and James Slade of Slade Architecture renovated a three-story brownstone in Brooklyn for Ricky Kenig, the...
A Pantone Hotel for the Color-Obsessed Pantone has been on a licensing kick for a while now—witness the Pantone chip mugs, messenger bags, cufflinks—but they recently...
The Best of Dutch Design? NAi Publishing, in collaboration with the Dutch Design Awards, recently released the 2010 Dutch Design Yearbook, a 216-page atlas...
Design and Existential Risk Parsons The New School for Design is currently hosting an interesting lecture series, under the attention-getting theme "Design...
Corbusier-Approved Paint Deck I was excited to learn, from this recent New York Times story, that the Swiss company KT Color manufactures a line of paints...
Shipping Container Retail Design I wish I could see this cool new pop-up shop in person, but alas, it's in Manhattan and only until October 31. It's the first...
W New York Downtown While in New York City last month, I spent a night at the new W New York hotel, downtown in Wall Street.
Park Life, San Francisco I was in San Francisco's Inner Richmond neighborhood a few days ago, and stopped by one of my favorite shops: Park Life, a cool...
Terrariums by Botany Factory Browsing through the San Francisco shop General Store recently, I noticed some highly covetable, bulbous glass globes filled with...
Lerival's Architect-Designed Furniture Lerival, a design house that bridges contemporary furniture and architecture, was founded by Dominique Gonfard and James Coombes...
High-Design Doors Fifth-generation Italian manufacturer Lualdi just released its first collection of doors by American designers—namely by Dror...
Easy Ways to Save Energy Apparently the average home has 40 devices plugged in drawing constant energy, even when they're turned off (this is called,...
MoMA's Small Scale, Big Change The exhibition "Small Scale, Big Change" opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this Sunday.
Crowd-Sourced Product Design Founded by the 23-year-old entrepreneur Ben Kaufman—who previously developed an award-winning iPod accessory when he was still in...
New York's LomoWall I just got back from a week in New York City, reporting a handful of stories for Dwell (we're featuring many amazing projects in...
Modern Thank-You Notes GIGI PRESS, a new Los Angeles–based letterpress company, sent me samples of their work last week, and I love their clean, modern...
Street Value Book Dwell Creative Director Kyle Blue recently introduced me to the diverse and inspiring work of the New York-based graphic design...
BDDW's Handmade Record Players When Tyler Hays founded BDDW more than a decade ago, the company wore many hats: depending on the project, it might be a...
Down-to-Earth Design Online I recently happened upon the website of Pedlars, a family-run design shop based in rural Scotland.