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Video: Animating Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Worldview
Buckminster Fuller was one of the most fascinating inventors, designers, and thinkers of his time. The geodesic dome, his most famous contribution, proved that lightweight structures could be...
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These Brookyln Designers Make Everything from Buildings to Jump Ropes
Since founding their Brooklyn-based art and design studio CW&T in 2009, Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy have created everything from apps to buildings to jump ropes. This short film takes us into...
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Nothing Goes to Waste in the Work of Chen Chen & Kai Williams
Chen Chen & Kai Williams, whose experimental design studio is based in Brooklyn, are masters at transforming excess product into furniture and interior objects. While the pair may use concrete to...
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Visibility Studio Lets Ideas Take Them Where They Want to Go
Visibility is a New York-based industrial design studio founded by Joseph Guerra and Sina Sohrab in 2012. This short film explores the pair’s diverse influences as well as their unique prototyping...
View ArticleThis Educator Designs Gender-Neutral Toys for Kids
Cas Holman is a Rhode Island and Brooklyn-based designer and educator. With her company, Heroes Will Rise, she designs and manufacturers non-gender specific toys that “inspire constructive play,...
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New Graphic Memoir, Exhibit Pay Tribute to Playground Design
Illustration (cropped) from "Playground of My Mind," by Julia JacquetteCourtesy the Wellin Museum of Art / Julia JacquetteAn important part of artist Julia Jacquette’s recently opened survey exhibit,...
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Plus Pool Asks New Yorkers to Show Their Support
Courtesy Plus Pool New Yorkers often bemoan their city’s dearth of public space. They also complain about feeling unconnected to New York’s vast networks of waterways. Plus Pool, a free public swimming...
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Blue Light is “Catnip” For Our Physiology, But Designers Need to Control It...
GSA Federal Center South, Seattle, Washington. ZGF Architects. Courtesy Benjamin Benschneider This is the first installment of Metropolis’ new video series, The Slant. Each segment features designers,...
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Corporate Innovation and Workplace Design Go Hand-in-Hand Says Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s main campus in Redmond, Washington. Courtesy Microsoft This is the second installment of Metropolis’ new video series, The Slant. Each segment features designers, stakeholders, and...
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Good Workplace Design is Key to Retaining Employees, Says Starbucks Director...
Courtesy Metropolis This is the third installment of Metropolis’ new video series, The Slant. Each segment features designers, stakeholders, and end-users weighing in on innovative research, dynamic...
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For City Planners in Seattle, Livability and Equity Go Hand in Hand
Courtesy Wikimedia Commons This is the fourth installment of Metropolis’ new video series, The Slant. Each segment features designers, stakeholders, and end-users weighing in on innovative research,...
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To Retain Millennial Employees Workplaces Need to Support Mentorship
Applied Predictive Technologies’ offices in Arlington, VA. Courtesy Thomas McConnell/IA Interior Architects This is the fifth installment of Metropolis’ new video series, The Slant. Each segment...
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“Texture + Transparency” Takes Viewers on a Virtual Tour of the Glass House...
A new six-part series released by the Glass House takes viewers on an all-new journey through the Philip Johnson property. MYND Workshop / Michael Biondo Philip Johnson’s Glass House has been covered...
View ArticleVisibility Studio Lets Ideas Take Them Where They Want to Go
Visibility is a New York-based industrial design studio founded by Joseph Guerra and Sina Sohrab in 2012. This short film explores the pair’s diverse influences as well as their unique prototyping...
View ArticleThis Educator Designs Gender-Neutral Toys for Kids
Cas Holman is a Rhode Island and Brooklyn-based designer and educator. With her company, Heroes Will Rise, she designs and manufacturers non-gender specific toys that “inspire constructive play,...
View ArticleNew Graphic Memoir, Exhibit Pay Tribute to Playground Design
An important part of artist Julia Jacquette’s recently opened survey exhibit, “Unrequited and Acts of Play,” started as a side project—more of a personal investigation than an artistic endeavor....
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Plus Pool Asks New Yorkers to Show Their Support
Courtesy Plus Pool New Yorkers often bemoan their city’s dearth of public space. They also complain about feeling unconnected to New York’s vast networks of waterways. Plus Pool, a free public swimming...
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Blue Light is “Catnip” For Our Physiology, But Designers Need to Control It...
GSA Federal Center South, Seattle, Washington. ZGF Architects. Courtesy Benjamin Benschneider This is the first installment of Metropolis’ new video series, The Slant. Each segment features designers,...
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Corporate Innovation and Workplace Design Go Hand-in-Hand Says Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s main campus in Redmond, Washington. Courtesy Microsoft This is the second installment of Metropolis’ new video series, The Slant. Each segment features designers, stakeholders, and...
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Good Workplace Design is Key to Retaining Employees, Says Starbucks Director...
Courtesy Metropolis This is the third installment of Metropolis’ new video series, The Slant. Each segment features designers, stakeholders, and end-users weighing in on innovative research, dynamic...
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