In This Manhattan Apartment, Every Room Is a Testament to Japanese TraditionThe New York Times - By THESSALY LA FORCETHE ORIGINAL IDEA wasn’t very ambitious: a tearoom in an empty apartment. Though not just any tearoom: This would be a tearoom that served as a work of art. The artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, 70, had made tearooms
Play buttonApple Watch This 1999 Apple video shows Jony Ive in the process of becoming Jony IveFast Company - Harry McCrackenFrom the 1990s onward, Ive’s understated—but hardly modest—explanations of Apple’s design goals have been instrumental to its product launche. If you want to know the legacy of Jonathan Ive, who announced
Play button One of tech’s most prolific design studios just reinvented the coffee makerFast Company - Katharine SchwabArgodesign works with companies like Magic Leap and designs interfaces for AI. But its latest project is pure low-tech. If you’re a true coffee aficionado, chances are you’ve got an immersion brewing at
Logos I’ve been studying logos for decades. Here’s what changed this yearFast Company - Kelsey Campbell-DollaghanAnother year older, but the logo design industry shows no signs of old age. Like an unruly kid ripping through a stack of unopened presents, I eagerly dive into my annual logo report knowing an experience
Shigeru Ban Designs Temporary, Easy-to-Build Shelters for Disaster-Prone Areasdwell - Erika HeetResponding to the displacement caused by Typhoon Haiyan, architect Shigeru Ban designed a series of easy-to-build prefab shelters for the Philippines. Following Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines
Apple Watch An exclusive look at an original iPhone prototypeThe Verge - Tom Warren“This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two and half years,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s late CEO, as he introduced the original iPhone on January 9th, 2007. Apple had developed the iPhone in secret
Fiat’s newest concept is a modular electric car you can almost endlessly customizeThe Verge - Sean O'KaneThe biggest debuts each year at the Geneva Motor Show are usually eye-popping supercars, but look hard enough and you can find some more... democratic ideas in the margins. Like Fiat’s newest concept,
Peek inside the tallest cross-laminated timber building in the USinhabitat - by Lucy Wang Portland, one of the leading cities for sustainability initiatives in the U.S., is now home to the nation’s tallest mass timber and cross-laminated …
130 Majestic Oak Trees Inspired This Sleek Beverly Hills Home Asking $32Mdwell - Michele Koh MorolloSprawling trees and spectacular canyon views were the driving forces behind the design of Oak Pass Main House. Michael Chen, Tomer Fridman, & Adam Rosenfeld of CompassIn California, the Coast Live Oak
This Oregon Company Crafts Exceptional Tiny Homes Starting at $40Kdwell - Michele Koh MorolloHunkered down during a week-long snow storm, three couples hatch a plan to build purposefully designed and expertly crafted tiny homes under the moniker Tiny Heirloom. In early 2014, Portland, Oregon–based
A Modernist Dream Home Makes the Most of a Rare Double Lot in Palo Altodwell - Deborah BishopAfter a few stabs at realizing their dream home, a couple hit the mark with an exquisitely modern domicile in Palo Alto. Each time Mark and Laura Pine build a house together—this is their fourth from ground
How You Can Improve UX with Microinteractions. Part IImuz.li - Sergey Gladkiy In the first part of the article, I talked about the definitions and types of microinteractions and why they work for your product UX. Here, I will …
Fact110west40th.com Transcription of The Best of Fact's introduction by Warren Boroson, 1967* This magazine is dedicated to the proposition that a great magazine, in its …
Bob Dylan, the WandererThe New Yorker - Nat HentoffA fusion of Huck Finn and Woody Guthrie, the musician writes songs that sound drawn from oral history. The word “folk” in the term “folk music” used to connote a rural homogeneous community that carried
Millennials really hated Snapchat’s redesignRecode - Rani MollaTheir opinion of Snapchat’s brand has taken a major hit. Snapchat users have a much more negative view of the brand since Snap redesigned the app in January. Its user sentiment — measured by having consumers
Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what?TechCrunch - Josh ConstineWe’re at the cusp of the visual communication era. Stories creation and consumption is up 842 percent since early 2016, according to consulting firm Block Party. Nearly a billion accounts across Snapchat,
Finding clarity in a time of chaos: the role of the Flipboard brand todaymedium.com - Flipboard Design Our world today is confusing, cluttered, and rapidly changing. It’s hard to keep up, to stay connected, to the world, and to ourselves. But it …
Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Flipboard by Moniker and In-houseunderconsideration.com - Armin Launched in 2010, Flipboard is a news and social network aggregator — or, in its words, a “curation platform” — that allows users to select feeds …
The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a SmileThe New Yorker - Alexandra LangeEvery fifteen minutes or so, as I wrote this story, I moved my cursor northward to click on the disk in the Microsoft Word toolbar that indicates “Save.” This is a superstitious move, as my computer automatically
Adrian Frutiger logos, 1960s–70slogodesignlove.com - David Airey While the late Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger (1928–2015) is best known for his renowned typefaces such as Univers, Avenir, and Frutiger, many …
Play button studio gang reveals design for arkansas art center to be realized in 2020designboom.com - rob reuland the arkansas art center has recently approved a redesign by international firm studio gang and landscape architecture practice SCAPE. the museum is …
Play button Intel made smart glasses that look normalThe Verge - Dieter BohnThe most important parts of Intel’s new Vaunt smart glasses are the pieces that were left out. There is no camera to creep people out, no button to push, no gesture area to swipe, no glowing LCD screen,
The UX of AI - Library - Google Designdesign.google Using Google Clips to understand how a human-centered design process elevates artificial intelligence
Hawaii missile false alarm due to badly designed user interface, reports sayThe Guardian - Alex HernAlert occurred after employer pressed button labelled ‘missile alert’, instead of the one next to it marked ‘test missile alert’ A false alarm warning Hawaiians of an incoming ballistic missile on Saturday,
Hut The $26,300 Muji Hutsilodrome.com The Muji Hut is a $26,300 (¥ 3,000,000) home designed for those who like the idea of minimalist living, and love the idea of not having a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Remove the legend to become oneeugenewei.com - by Eugene Wei
Spend an Unforgettable Night in Denmark's New LEGO Housedwell - Charlotte WestLEGO and Airbnb have teamed up to offer some lucky winners a night in an architect’s dream house filled with 25,000 LEGO bricks. Danish firm BIG was no stranger to the colorful little bricks known as when
Play button Stanford Seminar - Tools for Creativity: The Story of Paper, Pencil, and Pastewww.youtube.com
