11.30.15
Sighted
An Ingenious New Take on the Zip Tie
A chic take on the ubiquitous zip tie, Hooked Up is a leather strap, available in three different sizes, that can be used to bind — well, just about anything.
10.21.15
Graphic Design
Japanese Printmaker Kumi Sugai
As anyone familiar with our Pinterest account (or our archive content) is well aware, we kind of have a thing for unearthing vintage gems. So we were pretty psyched when Ryland's internet searching led us to the Japanese painter and printmaker Kumi Sugai, who died in 1996 but whose work remains completely contemporary and relevant today.
10.09.15
Graphic Design
Block Print Series by Naomi Clark for Fort Makers
With their repeating triangle and half-moon motifs, the prints represent a natural synthesis of the collective's output to date.
09.25.15
Shopping
Top 5: Mobiles
A periodic nod to object typologies both obscure and ubiquitous, featuring five of our favorite recent examples. Today, we're turning our attention to a perennial favorite subject: mobiles! (And for those in small spaces, don't worry — these beauties will look as good hanging against a wall as they do in mid-air.)
09.15.15
Graphic Design
Peter Judson’s April Showers
If illustration doesn't work out for Peter Judson, perhaps he might consider interior design as an alternate career? In the story we published on the London designer today, he revealed that for every day in April of this year, he imagined and drew a different shower stall, complete with tile schemes, hinges, Bacterio-style laminates, and geometric faucets.
09.15.15
Up and Coming
London Graphic Designer Peter Judson
London illustrator Peter Judson's work is as if Ettore Sottsass and Richard Scarry had a child and sent it to architectural drafting school.
09.11.15
Excerpt: Exhibition
Thaddeus Wolfe at R & Company
Thaddeus Wolfe's latest experiments are on view now at a solo show at R & Company in Tribeca, and we're including some of our favorite pieces here today. Inspired by everything from the deterioration of urban surfaces in his Brooklyn neighborhood to the vicissitudes of mushroom foraging, each piece goes so far beyond any preconceived notions of glasswork that it becomes something else entirely.
09.08.15
Sighted
Stas Volovik, Painter
Born in Uzbekistan and now living in Berlin, Volovik didn’t pursue any formal artistic training but rather taught himself the principles of abstraction.
09.03.15
Shopping
Top 5: Bookends
A periodic nod to object typologies both obscure and ubiquitous, featuring five of our favorite recent examples. Today, our subject is the bookend — a.k.a. five new ways to make your killer design library look even cooler.
08.29.15
Saturday Selects
Week of August 24, 2015
A weekly Saturday recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: fall previews from NYABF and Maison et Objet, a new place to score succulents in Scandinavia, and a serious showing of Aussie design power, including a new collection from Melbourne furniture-maker Fred Ganim, above.
08.26.15
Excerpt: Magazine
The Spectrum Issue of Gather Journal
Since its launch in 2012, each issue of the biannual food journal Gather has been organized around a theme, but this summer's is by far our favorite. We're excerpting a story from “Spectrum,” an entire issue devoted to color.
08.14.15
Up and Coming
A New Australian Design Pop-Up
A pop-up exhibition this weekend of some of the best designers in Australia, as curated by Bianca Riggio and Ryan Hanrahan of Page Thirty Three.