ISSEY MIYAKE x UNITED NUDE Shoes

Issey Miyake has launched a new shoe collection that brings the “TEN SEN MEN” (point, line, and surface) concept to the feet. The ISSEY MIYAKE x UNITED NUDE collaboration continues United Nude’s approach of seeing shoes as architecture by releasing shoes with a sculptural feel, made using cut...

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Ding: A Smart, Modern Doorbell

While doorbells have remained pretty much the same over the years, Ding has been working behind the scenes to change that. They’ve launched the Ding Smart Doorbell which aims to be a simple yet smart solution for your modern home. Ding is comprised of three components – the doorbell button, t...

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8 Ways To Make your Site Mobile Friendly

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Over 60% of internet usage takes place through a mobile phone or tablet; that is a colossal shift in just a relatively few short years. Terms like “mobile friendly” and “responsive design” are at the top of ever web designers lexicon now as having a website look and work great...

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These Cats Competed In An International Show While You Were Out Partying This Weekend

Did you groggily hit your alarm this morning, dreading another week ahead? Did you hope that somewhere in this world there were fluffy, soft cats winning awards for simply being cats? Could such a beautiful thing exist?
In short: Yes. It all happened on Oct. 22 at the fifth TICA (The...

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Modern Townhome Development in Phoenix

Located in Phoenix, Arizona, Uptown Row is a townhome development situated between a historic residential area and a busy industrial road, which happens to be less than 500 feet from a light rail station. The project was designed by The Ranch Mine to feel like single-family homes while ...

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Nature Lab: Showcasing British Craft at London Design Fair

Nature Lab, an exhibition at London Design Fair, brings together six different makers to showcase how ordinary, everyday substances can be transformed into “objects of wonder.” Through design, these six British crafts people tell the story of nature, transformed. Called a laboratory, the obj...

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Exclusive: Carlo Bookends by Ini Archibong for OTHR

The latest in our partnership with design brand OTHR? The hyper-geometric Carlo Bookend: a 3D Printed Porcelain object created in collaboration with award-winning designer Ini Archibong.
The bookend is a playful take on the various scales of design experience;...

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Organic food plant by Arch Studio references China's hutong housing

This organic food-processing plant in China’s Hebei Province has been designed by Beijing practice Arch Studio as a series of individual buildings set around courtyards.
Arch Studio designed the 1,720-square-metre facility as a series of independent blocks – a store, a mill, an oil pres...

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Geometric Pens That Stand Up

Say goodbye to watching every pen roll away onto the floor the moment you set it down. Designed by Clara von Zweigbergk for Areaware, Standing Pens are refillable ballpoint pens that have taken on a completely new form – a geometric one.

The pens are made of wood and feature wider flat b...

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The Roboming Fellow Is a Personal Robot Friend

If you’ve already seen the trailer for the upcoming sci-fi film Passengers, you’ll probably remember the little remote-controlled robot Chris Pratt uses to deliver his date night invitation to his spaceship companion, Jennifer Lawrence. It seems the future isn’t really so far off, as we might...

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All The Best Superpowers, Visualized as Geometric Designs

Try drawing a picture that conveys telepathy, the ability to communicate through extrasensory means. How about telekinesis, the power to manipulate objects with the mind. Tricky, right? Now do it using only simple geometric shapes.
Fardan Munshi did just that, creating 16 minimalist posters t...

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Dear Internet, It's Time To #SavePepe

As the election draws near, with more and more women coming forward to share their stories of being sexually harassed by Donald Trump, it seems just about every self-respecting man, woman and child has jumped off the quickly self-destructing ship that is Trump’s hate-mongering c...

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A’ Design Awards & Competition Architecture & Design Winners

The following post is brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.
By now you’re probably familiar with A’ Design Award & Competition, the world’s leading design award, reaching design e...

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No Ordinary Love project asks buyers to pay more if they want to know who made a piece

Martino Gamper has curated an exhibition of unattributed ceramic pieces that questions the importance of identity in the design industry.
The show – which is being held at SEEDS Gallery London – operates on an unusual buying system that asks visitors to pay double the price if they want to kn...

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Amplifi HD Wi-Fi Is Smart Design With Smarter Technology

Ubiquiti Networks Amplifi HD Wi-Fi system is an internet solution for a wholly modern day problem: spotty residential wi-fi coverage. Unlike traditional internet routers, the Amplifi simplifies everything about wi-fi internet inside the home, all housed within industrial design representing ...

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Pandora’s New Logo Is, Like, Totally ’80s-Era MTV

Amidst a slew of new product launches, Pandora this week unveiled a revamped logo and branding strategy. And like Netflix, Instagram, and Airbnb before it, Pandora’s new identity skews simple. Gone are the scholarly, serif letters of the music streaming service’s old logomark and app icon. In...

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The Type Of House You Should Never Buy

The massive, gaudy houses lining the streets of America’s upscale suburbs began to look like the epitome of bad taste and poor judgement once the foreclosure crisis hit. The writer behind the blog “McMansion Hell” tells why they’ll eventually be gone for good.
Kate Wagner, a 22-year-old gett...

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Hill Top Cottage by Luigi Rosselli Architects

Perched on top of a hill facing Sydney Harbour, Hill Top Cottage was designed by Luigi Rosselli Architects for a young family that wanted to be respectful of their neighbors in a conservative area of North Sydney in Australia. After board proceedings and numerous objections, the design was...

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10 Modern Fireplace Tools & Accessories

After what feels like a never-ending summer of brutal temperatures and extreme weather, it finally feels like fall is sliding into our daily lives. That means warm sweaters and cozy fires that we can curl up in front of as we get ready for the next season. Fires don’t build themselves...

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Enormous helix-shaped ramps lead into Amsterdam car park

A pair of 30-metre spiralling ramps provide access to this multi-functional car park in Amsterdam by Dutch studio Benthem Crouwel Architects.
Located at an intersection between Amsterdam‘s business district and one of the city’s busiest motorways, the construction serves as the ...

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OneBlade by PENSA

OneBlade is a minimal razor created by Brooklyn-based designers PENSA. The final product was the result of more than a year of design and invention, eliminating almost all signs of striations on the blade that cause burn against the skin. The blade feels solid and balanced within the hand, ...

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The Sartoris Project Explores Amplifying Virtual Reality

As promising as virtual and augmented reality technologies are shaping to be, they’re currently the equivalent of eating food with eyes closed and nose pinched. Designers Ava Aghakouchak and Maria Paneta at Interactive Architecture Lab at UCL want us to experience virtual worlds with eyes w...

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How the Electoral Map Would Look: Women, Men … Bears?

Yesterday afternoon, Nate Silver, the editor in chief of the obsessive political polling site FiveThirtyEight, tweeted two parallel-universe versions of the same electoral map. In one, the US is divvied up into red and blue states based on election results if only women voted.

Here’s what t...

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Mother-Daughter Travel Pics Will Make You Want To Road Trip With Mom

Alex Pawlowska had always dreamed of taking a girls’ trip with her mother, but it was a death in the family that finally made them both realize how precious life really is.
“After losing my grandma, I realized that neither me nor my mum will be here forever, and that I can’t wait for the righ...

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LDF16: 37 Countries Interpret Utopia for London Design Biennale

London’s first ‘Design Biennale‘ took place at Somerset House from 07 to 27 September, overlapping conveniently with the capital’s annual celebration of all things design, the London Design Festival. 37 countries and territories from six continents responded to the theme ‘Utopia by Design’ in...

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45 is a Table System To Fit All Your Needs

A dining table! A coffee table! A desk! In fact, the 45 table system has all of the above. Designed by David Galvañ and Manuel Bañó of LaSelva Design Studio for Inyard, this table system has tables that come in 5 different sizes, but all with the same clean and minimal look.

Using CNC machin...

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Dramatic folded canopy shelters riverside terrace of MX_SI Architects' auditorium in Spain

A huge canopy extends from one side of this auditorium in the Spanish province of Córdoba and folds over a riverside terrace, encouraging visitors to loiter around before and after performances.

Barcelona-based MX_SI Architects designed the Municipal Auditorium to host performances and exhib...

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Design Icons Under $500 From Lumens

The following post is brought to you by Lumens. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.
If you’re a lover of modern design, most likely you’re aware of just how expensive it can be, oftentimes leading us to save our money in hopes of on...

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Map Nerds, Rejoice: Here’s the Dymaxion as a Foldable Globe

When Buckminster Fuller released his Dymaxion map in 1954, the disjointed atlas was unusual, to say the least. He and architect Shoji Sadao created a projection showing all seven continents arranged in a nearly contiguous land mass. They projected this archipelago onto an icosahedron consis...

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Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A.

The art season this fall is practically bursting at the seams with first-rate museum and gallery exhibitions all over town. I’m doing my best to see as many of them as possible, but with the format of my program — one report per week — I have to choose wisely which...

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A Modular Chair With Over 8,000 Combinations

Danish brand Fritz Hansen worked with Benjamin Hubert, of Layer, to design the Pair seating system that gives you over 8,000 possible combinations, making sure you get the exact chair you want and need for any situation. Spanning the course of three years, over 30 prototypes were developed...

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Hypnotic gifs animate traditional Japanese joinery techniques

Timber joints slot together in these Tetris-like gifs – the work of a young Japanese man so obsessed by joinery techniques he set up a Twitter account dedicated to the cause.
Named The Joinery, the account bills itself as the complete 3D guide to Japanese joinery styles.

渡り顎二重枘仕口 Watari-ago-...

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The Cosmic Light of NAP Laser Etched URI LED Light Bulbs

Has there been a more exciting time for lighting lovers as today? LED technology has revived what was a dimming category that long suffered under the uninspiring limitations of CFLs and the energy-hunger of incandescents only a few years ago. A new generation of bulbs has emerged, ones both...

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New Font ‘Chronicle Hairline’ Is for Men Who Wear Dress Shoes Without Socks

Chronicle Hairline, the latest typeface from type foundry Hoefler & Co., is a genteel yet relaxed family of letters created for the fashion world. Like dapper men who wear dress shoes without socks, Chronicle Hairline favors a deliberately dressed-down look. It looks formal, yet a...

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At Home In Holland: Vermeer And His Contemporaries from the British Royal Collection

In addition to superstars Rembrandt and Vermeer, the Dutch Golden Age produced a cache of artists who invented a popular art form known today as genre painting. “At Home in Holland: Vermeer and his Contemporaries from the British Royal Collection” at the Mauritshuis is a rare...

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Lee Broom Opens Permanent NYC Showroom

British designer Lee Broom continues making his mark in the furniture and lighting industry and his latest endeavor involves the opening of his first permanent showroom. Located in NYC’s Soho, the Greene Street digs comes on the heels of his successful four week pop-up store, Broom Off B...

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Davidson Rafailidis tops studios for artist and ceramicist with three angular roofs

A+Awards: a trio of mono-pitched roofs shelter this set of studios designed for a painter and ceramicist couple, which was one of the winners at this year’s Architizer A+Awards (+ slideshow).

Buffalo, New York-based architecture studio Davidson Rafailidis created He, She & It for ...

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Instagram Got a New Office. It Looks Like Instagram

Venture into the offices of many young tech companies and you’ll notice a certain aesthetic—scrappy yet stark, with an undertone of sophomoric bemusement. Lots of wood and polished concrete, bright colors, that sort of thing.
As companies mature, so to do their offices. Things get more polis...

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Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Every Inspirational Movie Teacher In 'SNL' Parody

Last night on “Saturday Night Live,” Lin-Manuel Miranda was that substitute teacher. You know, the one who thinks they know what the kids these days are into, and tries to seem super ~hip~ while making a difference in students’ lives?
In a hilarious skit, which essentially parodied every insp...

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Desktop Wallpaper: October 2016

This month’s wallpaper was designed by Abi Stevens, a UK-based illustrator and workshop instructor who enjoys mythology, sci-fi and history.
Click on the size below to download:
DESKTOP: 1024768 \ 12801024 \ 16801050 \ 19001200 \ 25601440
MOBILE: iPhone 5 \ iPhone 6 \ iPhone 6 Plus \ iP...

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Friday Five with Dave Dawson

A few years ago, we had the pleasure of touring Urban Electric Co., seeing firsthand just how incredible the company is and the care and passion they put into each light fixture they produce, which happens to all happen in-house. The man behind the magic is Dave Dawson, who after earning a...

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Schemata Architects creates pinewood-lined interior for Blue Bottle coffee shop

Plywood panels are used to conceal storage and serving hatches inside this Tokyo coffee shop by Schemata Architects (+ slideshow).

Schemata Architects was brought on board to design the interiors for the Blue Bottle Coffee Cafe’s fourth Japanese store.

Located in the lively Roppongi...

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Let’s All Obsess Over This Intricate Map of Alt Music History

It started with The Sex Pistols. Specifically, with The Sex Pistols’ June 4, 1976 show at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. The concert now ranks as one of the most influential performances of all time, up there with Woodstock. But the audience, not the band, made the show f...

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How The Turnip Prize Grew From A Joke Into A Global Contest

A new book chronicles the history of the spoof Turnip Prize, which is awarded annually for the world’s intentionally worst work of modern art.
The parody of the better-known Turner Prize encourages entrants to “take the least amount of effort possible” in creating their pieces, which are the...

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Wayne White: Live in NYC

We’re huge fans of Wayne White’s word paintings that feature 3D sayings on top of traditional landscapes and the Los Angeles-based artist recently put together a new batch of work for his second major solo exhibition at the Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC. I’M HAVING A DIALOGUE WITH THE UNIVERSE ...

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An Artist-Inspired Desk That Lasts From Childhood to Adulthood

Roberto Gil, of Casa Kids, decided to design a desk for children and when seeking inspiration, he looked to the works of Jean Prouvé, Mondrian, and Donald Judd. The DUMBO Desk is the perfect workspace for any modern kid, while also working for an adult. This is a desk system that can take ...

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Graffiti-covered Les Magasins Généraux warehouse in Paris transformed into BETC offices

Advertising agency BETC has taken a huge derelict flour and grain warehouse on the banks of the Canal de l’Ourcq in Paris and transformed it into offices boasting a large roof garden and plant-filled courtyards (+ slideshow).
The 20,000-square-metre Les Magasins Généraux building in Pan...

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MAST Launches City-Inspired Chocolate Collections

Brooklyn-based chocolatiers MAST have launched a new series of chocolate inspired by the cities where their flagship factories are located. Each of the City Collections was created as a way to give back to those three communities that have embraced them along the way – Los Angeles, Brooklyn, ...

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How Design Legend Saul Bass Changed Film and TV Forever

The next time you watch Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, pay close attention to the film’s iconic shower scene. Note the quick cut-aways, extreme close-ups, and sharp shooting angles. These stylistic decisions amount to a decidedly un-Hitchcockian aesthetic. That might be because Hitchcock didn’t ...

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'20th Century Women' Is Poignant And Vibrant

It’s ladies’ night at the New York Film Festival. Last week, Ava DuVernay’s searing race examination “13th” became the first documentary to open the fest. Elsewhere, Isabelle Huppert headlines a dark satire about a rape victim, Pedro Almodóvar’s mother-daughter drama “Julieta” adapts three of...

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Casa LL2 by Ferrer & Zraid Arquitectos

Located in Maracaibo, Venezuela, a city where the temperature is generally around 100 degrees all year round, Ferrer & Zraid Arquitectos had their work cut out for them when designing Casa LL2. The 13,300-square-foot residence spans two floors and sits on a 40,550-square-foot compound,...

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Making Weather Adds Atmospheric Atmosphere

Richard Clarkson Studio and Crealev’s Making Weather is an uncategorizable creation, an objet d’art and also a functional piece of technology: a polyester fiber cloud equipped with hidden magnetic levitation modules and other audio-visual delights.

Making Weather is an evolutionary improv...

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Mosaic Tile Inspired by Gestalt Psychology

Just launched at this year’s Cersaie, NUC is a new mosaic glass tile created by MUT Design that plays with your perception. Designed for Harmony by Peronda, the tile design was inspired by the principles of Gestalt psychology, much like the infamous Rubin vase/face, in that it’s just a simp...

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United Nude and Issey Miyake experiment with wood and leather for Rock and Wrap shoes

Dutch footwear brand United Nude has teamed up with Japanese fashion label Issey Miyake to create two new designs – a fragmented platform sandal with a wooden sole and a wrapped leather shoe.
United Nude founder and architect Rem D Koolhaas teamed up with Issey Miyake‘s head of w...

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How to Use Contracts on Your Website

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For the last couple of weeks I’ve been publishing articles here on the Design Range all focused around contracts. I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right – it has been thrilling. Genuinely though – I think in these last couple of weeks I’ve put out some really useful co...

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Sublime Stemme Opens Metropolitan Opera Season with Wagner

By Mark McLaren, ZEALnyc Editor in Chief, October 6, 2016


This week the Swedish soprano Nina Stemme joined the ranks of Callas, Sutherland, Pavarotti and Domingo as she headlined the opening of the Met’s season in a debut that introduced New York to the world’s current...

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House Between the Pine Forest by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

House Between the Pine Forest is a minimal home located in Paterna, Spain, designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. The aim of the project was to create a new and consistent identity to a house belonging to the same family for several generations. The original structure was intervened mul...

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LDF16: Design Innovation at 100% Design, Brompton & the V&A

We started our explorations of the London Design Festival in the West of London, taking in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Brompton Design District and 100% Design. Highlights from the latter included an installation (above) by Israeli designer and architect Ron Arad for LG Display made...

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Fresh From The Dairy: Space

Here’s a roundup of Society6 artist-designed products that are out of this world (sorry I couldn’t help myself).



Solar System wall clock by Mírë

Space cat t-shirt by Louis Roskosch

My childhood universe iPhone case by I Love Doodle

Space Invader long-s...

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10 of the most pristine minimalist kitchens

With the demand for minimalist homes increasing, architects are coming up with innovative ways to hide bulky appliances and storage units. We’ve rounded up 10 of the most stripped-back kitchens on Dezeen, including one concealed behind perforated metal screens and another crafted from...

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Listen: Episode 14 of Clever with Danny Seo

Photo by Jonas Jungblut

In this episode, eco-friendly lifestyle expert Danny Seo talks to Jaime and Amy about how he found his true calling at 12 years old, how being famous in Korea at a young age helped him keep his ego in check, and how he navigates tough situations by trying to...

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The Renault TREZOR Electric Coupé Concept

The Renault Trezor Concept embodies everything one hopes to witness at an auto show, a  future-forward vehicle expressing the technological trends just over the horizon with brazen élan. Unveiled at the 2016 Mondial de l’Automobile, Paris auto show, the sophisticated predatory curves of this ...

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Typographic Trickery Shifts a Font from Paper to Pixels

Consider the letter X: two symmetrical diagonal lines, crossing at their midpoints, right? Wrong. It’s true, it certainly looks that way. But it’s an illusion. To appear as though it intersects its neighbor’s middle, you actually have to shift the arm on the upper-right downward slight...

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The Way We Talk About Drug 'Abuse' Is Harmful -- And It Needs To Change

Substance use disorder is a medical circumstance ― a brain disease that can be targeted and treated. But when we use words like “junkie” and “crackhead,” we frame the issue in moral terms, suggesting that people with substance use disorders simply lack the willpower to get better.
And that’s ...

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A Minimalist, Monochromatic Apartment in Tel Aviv

This long, 80 square meter apartment, located in the center of Tel Aviv was given a minimalist new look by interior designers Yael Perry and Dafna Gravinsky, along with architect Amir Navon. The monochromatic new look accentuates the airiness and gives the illusion of having more space. Part...

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The Ink and Wash Series by EY Products

EY Products is an emerging design studio that aims to bring “unexpected pleasure” to our daily lives through the objects they design. Making an appearance at Maison et Objet, they are also sharing their latest project, the Ink and Wash series.

Ink and Wash is a collection of recycled and han...

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2 Storey Planter by Kunsik Choi

Based in Malmö, Sweden, designer Kunsik Choi created a series of wooden planters that were inspired by wooden barrels used for Swedish herring. Called the 2 Storey Planter, each dodecagon-shaped container was designed to give your plants their own wooden home, just how people live in their ow...

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Google launches omniscient voice-controlled Home device

It may look like a minimal speaker, but this new product from Google promises to harness the search giant’s data troves to provide all-knowing assistance in the home (+ movie).
Part of a suite of new products launched on Tuesday, Google Home represents the company’s move into...

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The 3D, Geometrical Puzzle by Efil Türk

Efil Türk created a fun, new project that takes your basic flat puzzle to a new level. The Geometrical Puzzle is made up of 540 geometric puzzle pieces that aren’t made of your typical cardboard – they’re made from resin.

Each puzzle piece is made of crystal epoxy resin using a molding techn...

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The Swedish Electric Toothbrush With an Italian Name

Home electronics startup Bruzzoni has all the airs of an Italian luxury brand, starting with their name. But dig under the surface and one surprisingly realizes the bathroom electronic accessories company’s line is actually rooted in a studio located in Falun, Sweden – a Scandinavian effort....

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How To Make Your Business Look Like An Agency

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I don’t know about you but I check out my competition regularly. I also check out the bigger agencies in my space and over the years I have wondered how I could get to their level and present my company like an agency.
Over time I have realised that some simple steps have h...

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Was This Dominican Playboy The Real-Life Inspiration For James Bond?

There’s been plenty of debate about who will be the next James Bond in recent years, complete with racist backlash over the possibility of the first Black 007. But here’s a twist, what if the inspiration for the man with a license to kill wasn’t white at all? 
That’s what litigator and histor...

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Lamps Inspired by Craft Paper Food Bags

Designed for lighting manufacturer B.lux, the Cone Light is a collection of lamps by German designer Werner Aisslinger. Looking towards an unusual source for inspiration, Aisslinger studied the old foldable craft paper bag that food used to be packaged in.

The Cone Lights are made of a...

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A+I uses "yin-yang" palette for Squarespace headquarters in New York

Black and white surfaces, indoor trees and a rooftop workspace all feature at the new head office for website building service Squarespace in New York (+ slideshow).
Squarespace wanted to house its four different offices in one place so took over 98,000 square feet (9,105 square metres)...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/art+culture+news/ai-uses-yin-yang-palette-for-squarespace-headquarters-in-new-york/

Simbiótica: An Exhibition of Modern Guatemalan Design

We recently returned from Antigua, Guatemala where we checked out a first time exhibition called Simbiótica. Simbiótica was brought about to bring a connection between contemporary artists and traditional Guatemalan artisans as a way to expand job opportunities and to show a new approach to t...

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So. Algorithms Are Designing Chairs Now

The Elbo chair is unusual piece of furniture. Not for its looks—though the legs, back, and arms bear an uncanny resemblance to bones—but for how it came to be.
Arthur Harsuvanakit and Brittany Presten of Autodesk’s generative design lab created the chair, but they didn’t design it. Yes, they ...

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Real-Life Superhero Roxane Gay Is Writing Queer Black Women Into Comics

Roxane Gay, the author of several books including Bad Feminist, An Untamed State and the soon-to-be-released Difficult Women and Hunger, is a powerful force of feminism in the literary world. She also frequently contributes to outlets like The New York Times and The Nation, passionately tack...

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A Norwegian Agency Gets New Polish Digs

When Norwegian agency Opera Software needed a new office in Wroclaw, Poland, they called on mode:lina to design an unforgettable space that fulfilled their request where they said, “We want the best office in the world!” Located in the heart of the city, the headquarters takes up...

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Behind the Scenes at Maya Romanoff

This post is brought to you by Maya Romanoff and Architectural Digest Marketing. Our partners are hand picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design.

While in Chicago recently, we spent some time at Maya Romanoff, a family-owned company making handmade ...

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The Billy BL Lamp Series by Studioilse for Kalmar Werkstätten

To celebrate her Designer of the Year award, Kalmar Werkstätten will be showcasing two of British designer Ilse Crawford’s designs. The successful launch of the Billy TL table lamp last year led to Studioilse’s redesign of the Billy BL floor lamp, both of which combine sophistication, luxury,...

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Renault replaces doors with a sliding roof for Trezor concept car

French car manufacturer Renault has unveiled its latest concept car, which features a red windscreen and a roof that “opens like the lid of a jewellery box” (+ movie).

Unveiled at this year’s Mondial De L’Automobile Paris, the Renault Trezor is an all-electric, ...

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5 Essential Illustration Tools

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This is an article I originally posted way back in October of 2012, but it has consistently been one of the most popular articles on the Design Range, and is probably the most viewed thing I’ve ever written. The plan was to take a look through it and make some updates, but t...

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Get A Glimpse Into The World Of Puppy Play

“Puppy Play” is a subset of BDSM culture that involves a person or persons taking on the “primal” role and mentality of a canine and exploring nonhuman desires and headspace via that experience.
Those who belong to the Puppy Play community may express their interest in and/or relationship wi...

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Circles and Outlined Posters by Atelier Cph

Graphic art and photography enthusiasts will be thrilled by the latest collections from Copenhagen-based studio Atelier Cph called Circles and Outlined.


As its name suggests, the Circles poster series was inspired by circles in various sizes. Using hand painted textilSe and cut out lines, ...

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3 Pattern Designers Re-Think Natuzzi’s Re-vive Chair

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Italian furniture brand Natuzzi Italia employed the skills of three of the top UK-based pattern designers on a special collaboration where they were asked to reimagine the company’s iconic Re-vive chair. Dubbed the “world’s first performance recliner,” the best-selling Re-vive rece...

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São Paulo's Galeria Millan opens new exhibition gallery with huge sliding doors

Twelve years after designing the Galeria Millan exhibition space in São Paulo, architects Sérgio Kipnis and Fernando Millan have added an annex that reveals its contents to the street.

Located in a residential district of the city, Galeria Millan describes itself as one of the most im...

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NYC’s Ugliest Train Station Will Soon Look Like This

The possibility of a revamped Penn Station has teased New York City travelers for the better part of two decades. Now, after 20 years of stops and starts, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has revealed updated plans, new renderings, and a timeline for redeveloping New York City’s le...

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For People Who Value Hip Hop But Not Black Lives

Do you feel the beat? The 808 drums bang heavily in your car speakers as a bombastic voice speaks rhythmically over the beat, creating a colorful blend that dances in your ear drums. You vibe, and you start to feel empowered and often hyped from the energy inserted into the track from the...

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10 Modern Religious Buildings

When thinking of religion in general, modern doesn’t usually come to mind, does it? Just because religion is steeped in tradition doesn’t mean that they can’t be practiced or appreciated in modern structures. In recent years, more and more modern churches, chapels, mosques,...

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Friday Five with Jon Burgerman

Photo by Bas Berkhout
Born in the United Kingdom, NYC-based Jon Burgerman is a contemporary artist, or one might say, a professional doodler and his signature bold, graphic style is quite infectious. He began with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University before moving ...

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Helsinki Design Week 2016: Design Takes Over the Finnish Capital

Helsinki’s 12th annual design week took place at the beginning of the month, centered around the 47th iteration of Habitare, the main design show established in 1970. More than 250 events across the city and the show itself were organized around the theme of “better.” Here are some of our fav...

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Normann Copenhagen's revamped flagship store features completely pink room

Normann Copenhagen has reopened its flagship furniture and homeware store in the Danish capital, where a steel corridor, mirrored walls and a space coloured entirely in pink have all been added (+ slideshow).

Described by the brand as “raw and industrial”, the shop has been...

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Fresh New Tools and Utensils for Fall

With Back-to-School in full force, we’ve been reminiscing of the joy we used to get from shopping for new school supplies. Amidst the rows of pencils, paint tubes, and stacks of paper, remembering that feeling of excitement of a new semester and a fresh start.
Though our fresh starts aren’t q...

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