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Interview: Flora GrubbDesigner and owner of San Francisco's Flora Grubb Garden, focused on water-wise landscapes. Also see L+L "Vertical Tillandsia Garden" from 2/20/2009.
We've had enough of frivolityHow does design respond to a bleak economic landscape? Philippe Starck, Sir Terence Conran and Kirstie Allsopp debate the future of their industries in these lean times.
Ducky Ahoy!Party-boy-celeb-architect Clive Wilkinson gets a 3-page spread in the New York Times and explains Club Clive: "I wanted to make the house so beautiful ‘that girls would forget my innumerable failings." Ahm... Party on, Duckies!
Starck the worthlessPhilippe Starck has decided that "everything that I designed is absolutely unnecessary," and "I think my job is absolutely useless," which is quite convenient since he has made quite a nice living off of his worthless, useless, unnecessary shit.
50 ManifestosO.D. on designer/archi-babble from a cast of interesting characters including Rem, Bruce Mau, Thom Mayne, the Bouroullec brothers, Zaha... even fellow blogger Geoff Manaugh... the list goes on and on.
Interview: Will AlsopWill Alsop talks about his methodology for painting and urban planning, and how he thinks architecture is "dead easy."
In Celebration of EamesGallery openings, websites, and wedding gifts. All of this and more in an Eames post full of 411 from A Daily Dose.
Donal McLaughlin - way beyond architectureA Yale trained architect, Donal McLaughlin is "a designer with a career that had placed him at the center of some of the major events of the twentieth century." Among his accomplishments is the design of the United Nations emblem.
Forever EamesA hundred years ago, a Modernist icon was born. Charles Eames went on to craft the new California home with wife Ray. Their 1949 house is the blueprint for 21st century L.A. living.
Interview: Werner Aisslinger, überdesignerBerlin-based architect/product designer -- the man behind the Loftcube (see L+L 8/20/2005 "Up on the rooftop") -- discusses his design philosophy, new moveable projects, and the importance of archetypes.
University of Quebec Design Student showA variety of student designs addressing issues such as multi-functionality, new materials, society and sustainability. [video, images]
IwB (Institute without Boundaries)"The IwB — part think tank, part design studio, part laboratory and part global classroom — is brewing big ideas, and the biggest of them may affect how we all live a few decades from now."
Interview: Patricia UrquiolaMilan-based Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola focuses on product design, displays and architecture.
"The Design 100"Yes, another list... and we're not on it (totally snubbed by the blogwatch, but whatever). What's hot in the world of design according to Time Magazine... like who the hell are they anyway? ;-)
Designing Critical DesignJurgen Bey, Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby and Martí Guixé are designers known for their critical attitude towards mainstream product design. An exhibition at Z33 in Belgium explores their ambivalent and critical position towards design.
Interview: Fritz Haeg - "gently radical design"Architect/artist/salon-owner/school-master Fritz Haeg talks about Edible Estates and other gardenLAb projects.
Interview: Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei is an artist, curator, and architectural designer who has been working in China and the United States since the late 1970's. Among his recent work is the collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron Architects on the Beijing Olympic Stadium.
NY Times "Style" Magazine 2006Lots of design schtuff, including an architecture slideshow - "Celestial Inspiration: Architects have often looked to the heavens for inspriation."
Got a lot of time to kill?Pruned compiles a laundry list of interviews with designers posted around the web... some previously mentioned here, others not.
High Tech, the Eames WayThe Eameses' displays for the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair are now up for auction.
Survey of Designers Salaries 2006The AIGA / Aquent survey of designer salaries, largely in the U.S.
From Towers to DishesLod Angeles design firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios profiled. Architecture, landscape, graphics, their "Not Neutral" home products and more.
Designers are poor“I earn nothing. My profit last year was five pounds.” These are the words of award-winning designer Patrik Fredrikson. He is not alone.
Practical legacy - Charles and Ray EamesThe Sydney Morning Herald writes up the Charles and Ray Eames for no particular reason other than the fact that they are "among the definitive 20th-century modernists."