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Amanda Vallance offers a spirited speculation about the potential for an emerging ethos in Chinese high fashion design to address issues in the global high fashion industry.
Nawar N. Al-Kazemi focuses on the role of design education in re-energizing Khaleeji cultural identity, in a region where design is witnessing an influx of imported identities.
Anna Marie Smith explores the future of micro-living, a lifestyle impelled by spatial restraints and a preference towards a more reductive way of existing.
Robinson Crusoe sets up his new home in a cave on a desert island and finds that by means of a chair and table, some shelves and hooks his situation looks a lot brighter.
A British native and an American transplant, Alice Twemlow looks to peripatetic whale-enthusiast Philip Hoare for advice on how to find one’s way home.
Lynda Decker speaks on NYC’s distinct surf design aesthetic which, with its literary typography and abstract imagery, avoids the typical Californian tropes
In 2011 the Republic of South Sudan became the world’s newest member state of the United Nations. As Anne Quito outlines, the need for official symbols establishes unique roles for designers during a time of emergence.
Caterina Francisca examines key transdisciplinary research and speculative design projects that have engaged with the human body as a material, a medium, and a site for critical intervention
Amanda Vallance contends that the ubiquitous “Made in China” label is gradually being challenged by the label “Designed in China.”
Anna Kealey reveals the ways in which packaging design creates a landscape of fictitious imagery, disconnected from realities of food production today.
Nawar N. Al-Kazemi advocates for design students in the Gulf region and an education embracing local history, design aesthetics, and typography.
A primer on micro-apartments and compact living in New York City.
Meg Farmer finds human traces of Donald Judd all but erased in the renovation (and museumification) of his house at 101 Spring Street, New York.
Walk through the isles of a pharmacy today and most product labels will have icons that illustrate the integrity of the product, like the rabbit that assures us that the product is cruelty free and not tested on our furry friends. And, the icon of the three green arrows curving towards one another in a […]
Sleeping on a tatami mattress, which could be endlessly repositioned, allowed Justin Zhuang to turn his childhood bedroom into a space of possibilities.
Using first-person interviews with graphic designers and project managers in South Sudan, Anne Quito recounts the challenges and opportunities of creating a national corporate identity suite, and explores the politics, aesthetics, and pragmatics of representation at a national scale.
Sandra Nuut considers innovative instances of fashion curation and demonstrates the ways in which new critical approaches might provide inspiration and exemplars for museums seeking to escape commercial constraints.
Bryn Smith reflects on the paradox of a now-fashionable hue that we also use to commemorate the first Great War.
The New York Times columnist Constance Rosenblum explores the distinctive habitats of New Yorkers.
Amanda Vallance meets the gal pal of Barbie and Paris Hilton.