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Design Dish: Performance architecture & design solutions for the 99%

Blair Pfander — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:15:02 +0000

Alex Schweder's "Performance" Architecture: Architect Alex Schweder is credited with the invention of "performance architecture," which broadly refers to small, occupied spaces that challenge our preconceived notions of shelter. Many of Schweder's works are built within existing spaces, appealing to my childhood obsession with forts. Among my favorites are the inflatable plastic creations, including "sac of rooms all day long," which looks like a big, warped playhouse.

Design with the Other 99%: C ities: Now on view at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, "Design with the Other 99%" showcases the most promising design and technological innovations coming out of the world's cities and over-crowded slums...

Why Design Now?

Perrin Drumm — Mon, 24 May 2010 20:08:47 +0000

"Why Design Now?", the latest exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, poses a pretty silly question. I can't think of a single reason not to design now or ever, for that matter. But if there are any skeptics out there, the plethora of good ideas and amazing, major-problem solving solutions in the form of everything from product design to community planning will surely shut them up.

The invisible streetlight wraps around branches, integrating itself into the surrounding environment.

Design USA

Perrin Drumm — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:27:28 +0000

The very first laptop computer was designed in 1982. It was chunky and boxy and had a phone attached, but where would be now without it, and more importantly, without its creator Bill Moggridge? Where would we be without Herman Miller or Google or Tupperware or Burt Rutan’s privately funded and awesome-looking SpaceShip One? All of [...]

Sustainable design: Nature Conservancy launches Design for a Living World

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:38:21 +0000

Uttering the phrase "green design" can evoke images of mud-plastered huts and clothes that just scream "itchy"... all bathed in a faint whiff of patchouli. A new project from the Nature Conservancy attempts to banish such sensations, and demonstrate that beauty and function can exist hand-in-hand with sustainability.