I'm currently a daily contributor over at Fast Company's Co.Design site. Click here for all those stories. (lettering by Leandro Senna : Bob Dylan's Genius...

For Those About To Write (We Salute You) is my new monthly-ish series on the recently revamped Ploughshares lit journal blog. Each post I will present a particular...

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From January to March, 2013, I'm working as one of two part-time Makers-in-Residence at San Francisco's (beyond fantastic) Makeshift Society. My residency will...

Check out the debut issue of Modern Farmer! I wrote a teensy piece on Art Farms, a Buffalo, New York-based organization looking to revitalize neighborhoods with...

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Once Removed is a design experiment with nine collaborators from across the globe, featuring new work by Atelier Takagi, Brendan Ravenhill, Craighton Berman,...

A few years ago, on a whim, a fellow 18th Street dweller and I decided to truly take advantage of our fair avenue with a comestible combination that just makes...

Matt Jacobson doesn’t just abide by the mantra “less is more,” he wholeheartedly embraces it. His Southern California home is a compact ode to minimal...

Play’s the thing for Zoe Miller and David Goodman. The Brighton, England-based couple behind Miller Goodman, their multi-disciplinary creative brand, might be...

Patrick Morris grew up in the idyllic New Zealand countryside, but space—and fresh air—was at a premium when he moved to London to study ceramic design at...

For branding efforts abroad, it can be difficult to capture the spirit of a particular culture without inadvertently transforming it into caricature instead....

I started Home Work, a column on dwell.com, to give people a bit of a boost to get crafty. from top to bottom: Introducing Home Work / DIY Stamps, Braided Rag...

It’s almost impossible to think that just five years ago world-class Paralympian Sarah Reinertsen had to regularly hack sneakers to get some tread on her...

I spend a lot of my free time making things. Here are some snaps of finished works and works in progress. from top to bottom: A flower in the style of a...

Pascale Wakim and Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte founded Carwan gallery in 2010 with a goal to unite contemporary Middle Eastern design to the international scene....

In Manhattan, where space is the ultimate luxury, a clever design workaround makes a dining table disappear after supper. Budgets beget compromise when it comes...

Charlie Schuck, a Seattle-based photographer, recently opened Object, a Northwest-centric design shop, after stumbling upon an “incredible” space in the...

Wiet Hekking’s specialty shop in the heart of Amsterdam displays the best of bent-ply furniture, past and present. Love at first sight is a powerful thing....

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Driven by “an evangelical zeal to save things,” Adam Hills and Maria Speake artfully repurpose landfill-bound materials at their London architectural salvage...

When Yigal Azrouël set out to open a store dedicated to Cut 25—an ever-so-slightly more youthful and edgy complement to his eponymous line—it was imperative...

Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma has demonstrated an especially strong affinity for provenance since she graduated from Eindhoven’s Design Academy in 2003....

As design director of England’s Established & Sons, which he helped launch in 2005, Sebastian Wrong has spent the past six years on a perennial hunt for ways to...

It’s okay—natural, even—to feel slightly unsettled when viewing work by New York-based artist Daniel Arsham, whose signature “architectural interventions”...

REM Eiland was once an anti-establishment icon, but the steel structure has recently found a second life as a symbol of community revitalization. First built in...

Linda Bergroth had gardening and storage in mind when she developed this scaled-down prefab prototype. The Finnish designer collaborated with Helsinki-based Avanto...

Angora is like pixie dust to Elizabeth Beer and Brian Janusiak. The founders of Various Projects, a multi-disciplinary New York design studio, they’ve used the...

Persistence paid off for this Cali­fornia couple who worked overtime for two years to tackle their all-in-one loft...

Budget supplies become modern design gold in this Omaha home. When is a wall more than a simple way to split up spaces? In Randy Brown’s Omaha, Nebraska, home,...

We got the low down on Jack White’s Rolling Record Store in Dwell's October issue, but the man had much more to say. Here, he talks about unfinished furniture...

During my three years at Dwell I was the top editor of the magazine's front-of-book section, In the Modern World. I selected and wrote about all the products and...

Ask anybody who has held so much as a bud vase from Heath Ceramics about the pottery’s charms, and you’re likely to encounter the kind of adoration reserved for...

“The first floor was about making something warm and woody that would blend into the natural environment,” architect Stephen Chung says of his Wayland,...

Pursuing his passion for painting gave Fabian Debora a means to transcend his troubled past. Fabian Debora believes in the transformative power of art. A...

"I can never understand why people employ decorators," posits Sir Terence Conran, a man whose surname is synonymous with design. "One of the great joys in life is...

Picture your garment-strewn home, with coats tossed over the sofa’s arm, scarves slung over side chairs, and handbags hidden who-knows-where. Consider the...

Thais Fontenelle—manager of the Luminaire Lab, an expansive 7,500-square-foot showroom and exhibition space in Miami’s design district—has watched the local...

It’s hard to believe that this idyllic house sited in a coastal coconut grove in Nandgaon, India, is a mere hour’s drive from bustling Mumbai. For architect...

“Form follows function” has been the go-to paradigm for evaluating good design since American architect Louis Sullivan articulated the idea more than a century...

No path? No problem. The desire lines in this Dutch photo essay prove that people are quite comfortable going their own way. Shortcuts are nothing new, but most...

Nestled in the small village of Tadten, Austria, the Erich Sattler Winery takes advantage of the soil’s temperature and sun’s trajectory to create the ideal...

Seven floors up, in an unassuming office building just shy of Chinatown, Dwell's San Francisco headquarters look out over the city we are happy to call home. Though...

What’s the best way to warm a small studio? Ekaterina Voronova opted for a compact wood-burning stove to keep her space cozy. Ekaterina Voronova’s living and...

After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a degree in furniture design, Jonah Takagi traveled the world for four years with indie-rock...

Every collection has to start somewhere, and for Lisa Congdon, it began with a dish. Nearly ten years ago, the San Francisco–based artist (and co-owner of local...

Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov met as editors at the venerable I.D. in 2005 and both developed a passion for peeking behind the scenes at the creative processes...

Forever replacing bulbs might fast become an act of the past as long-lasting, energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) make their way into the...

“I was born into this,” says Design House Stockholm CEO Anders Färdig of his work in the design industry. “I had no chance!” His father and godfather...

Will Robison and Jacob Krupnick believe that transforming basic transactions into “retail experiments” will change the rapport we have with what we buy....

Without ever having designed a building, photographer Julius Shulman forever shaped the way we see the mid-century architecture of Southern California. The City of...

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A comprehensive look at mid-century California design reveals a modern coming of age for the Golden State. California Design, 1930–1965, a new exhibition at...

When Tron raced into theaters on neon treads in 1982, the futuristic backdrops were a vis-ual revelation for cinema geeks. Nearly three decades later, its set...

Thanks to the Vintage Bazaar, a pop-up market started by locals Katherine Raz and Libby Alexander, the Windy City is brimming with prime design finds. In an age...

Does the alphabet take on more meaning when it’s freed from the confines of cast-in-lead movable type, pen and paper, and the frame of a computer screen?...

Far from pandering to the whine of youth, this urban play garden fosters thoughtful interaction in a protected setting within the bustle of San Francisco. Too...

Seventeen years ago, Jonathan Adler wasn’t a brand, he was a one-man full-time pottery production operation—“making, glazing, firing, packing, and shipping...

Holly Hotchner knows New York. Here, the born-and-bred Manhattanite—and director of the Museum of Arts and Design—shares her picks for books that symbolize the...

Climate-controlled high-rises make sense when the changing seasons bring extreme temperature shifts, but in Bangkok, year-round hot and humid days blend into...

“I’m not particularly interested in ‘design,’” says David Carlson, a man who has spent much of his career focused on the subject. “I see it as more of a...

Business as usual for ReForm School founders Billie Lopez and Tootie Maldonado means far more than simply managing their popular Silver Lake, California, shop....

Designer Arik Levy shares his deep appreciation for the simple beauty of a dried pomegranate. "For about a decade now, I've dried a grenade at the beginning of...

Chronicling the eponymous exhibition from earlier this year at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, First Works: Emerging Architectural...

Located at the ever-shifting intersection of design, fine art, and craft, R 20th Century has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a small vintage boutique...

We all know not to judge a book by its cover, or people by the company they keep. Unpacking My Library: Architects and Their Books offers a guided tour across the...

Though it’s quite popular to proclaim that design can change the world, even the best-laid plans aren’t enough to make a difference on their own. We spoke with...

For years there’s been a divide between manufactured first-world luxury items and handmade third-world crafts, but industrial designer Stephen Burks believes that...

Few feelings equal the rush of shopping in the center of the universe with cold hard cash—–or credit—–burning a hole in the pocket. New York retail is so...

Design iconoclast Matali Crasset—notably bespectacled and bowl-cutted—spent her youth in the French countryside before finding her creative feet in college....

In a London house that’s flooded with light, a spiral staircase provides a prismatic path from floor to floor. Designer Ab Rogers approaches commissions with...

As cofounder of the iconic Dutch collective Droog, industrial designer Gijs Bakker further defined the design identity of his homeland, the Netherlands, as simple...

Few forms of reading leave a physical reminder of the act itself, but to page through the two volumes of collected newsprints from Storefront for Art and...

Omer Arbel, the creative director at industrial design firm Bocci, was given three parameters when he began designing a home for his colleague Randy Bishop: Create...

Jack White believes the best way to introduce a new generation to the allure of albums is to bring the music to them—–in the Rolling Record Store, a custom...