The chair is barely 5,000 years old. For most of human history, it didn’t exist. People squatted, knelt, or sat on the floor. Across vast stretches of civilization, China before the 10th...
In 1970, the photocopier company Xerox opened a research lab in Palo Alto called PARC. Over the next eleven years, a few dozen researchers there built the graphical user interface, the laser...
Salam, cette semaine je parle de la collaboration Monoprix x Hall Haus, une collection de 25 objets qui pose une vraie question : est-ce que le design d’auteur doit rester dans les...
In 1979, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka asked his engineers for a portable cassette player he could use on long flights. What they built changed the way humans occupy public space. The Walkman...
Salam, cette semaineje vous emmène au cœur de la nouvelle stratégie design d’IKEA. Et honnêtement… je ne m’attendais pas à voir IKEA revenir aussi fort au Milan Design Week. Avec leur nouvelle...
Ian Yang on starting Gantri, a digital manufacturing company. Check out their website: https://www.gantri.com/ Socials: @gantri Positive Space Episode 2 Positive Space is a series of interviews with contemporary designers or people...
Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002) won Italy’s Compasso d’Oro nine times. Fourteen of his works sit in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1997, MoMA gave him the first individual...
In 1958, a German company called Braun released a small transistor radio called the T3. Forty-three years later, Apple released the iPod. The resemblance wasn’t an accident. This is the story of...