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Viewpoints
The Radical Reshaping of Craft
From museums to TikTok, explore radical craft as a response to climate crisis, a means of storytelling, and an exploration of new materials.
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Programs
A New Podcast Explores the Process Behind Iconic Designs
Once Upon a Project, a SANDOW Design Group production, explores the surprises, setbacks, and serendipitous events that play into bringing projects to fruition.
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Profiles
Net Zero 2022 Makes the Case for Expanding the Green Movement
The conference's ninth edition showcased the latest thinking in sustainability, but also aimed to broaden its scope beyond the built world.
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Profiles
Shantell Martin Shares the Stories of Music and Scholarship Behind Her Artwork
The visual artist known for her spontaneous hand-drawn art sheds light on other key aspects of her practice.
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Projects
“We Need to Integrate Everything”: Arturo Vittori’s Warka Village Nears Completion In Cameroon
The community of low-impact homes and water-harvesting towers, built and occupied by a pygmy rainforest community known as Bibambi II, could become a model for sustainable development.
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Profiles
Working Remotely, Ukrainian Designers Get a Lifeline From U.S. Firms
Two new programs—Support by Design and Hireukrainiandesigners.org—join forces to help provide remote jobs for designers in war-torn Ukraine.
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Profiles
Behind the Scenes with Andrew Emond
The Toronto-based photographer has taken Instagram by storm with his strange and haunting images of abandoned interiors. Here's exactly how he does it.
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Profiles
Brian Peters’ 3D Printed Ceramics Merge Art and Technology
Based on an initial prototype launched during Dutch Design Week in 2012, the Pittsburgh artist’s full-time fabrication studio pushes the limits of 3D printing with clay.
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Viewpoints
Andreu World’s Conversations About Work Takes Readers Beyond Shop Talk
The new book explores exemplary talent as eight designers share experience, personal reflection, and a trajectory for the future of the creative workplace.
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Profiles
The Potter Who Helped Shape Cranbrook Architecture
Metropolis digs into the archives of longtime Cranbrook faculty member Maija Grotell, “the Mother of American Studio Ceramics.”
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Profiles
Beyond the Wheel: BZIPPY Challenges Conventions in Clay
Bari Ziperstein’s socially and historically informed practice helps explain the current renaissance of ceramic furniture in contemporary interiors.
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Profiles
NYCxDESIGN’s Emerging Designer Residency Brings Craft to Commercial Retail
In partnership with Arts Thread, the 2021 designers-in-residence transform a storefront in The Shops at Hudson Yards.
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Profiles
Future100: Architecture Students Explore New Frontiers in Visualization
From board games to comic books, four students eschew realism for more emotive modes of architectural visualization.
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Products
Meet the Makers Behind the Tufted Rug Renaissance
Tufting is blowing up, and no it’s not just a TikTok trend. Metropolis spoke with the artists and designers who are helping popularize the technique and some who have taken it up during quarantine.
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Viewpoints
A New Book Explores the Iterative Nature of Milton Glaser’s Designs
Penned by the late design icon himself, Sketch & Finish juxtaposes over 70 finished works with original sketches, which he called "pictures of the brain."
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Products
The Organic Origins of Marset’s Dipping Light
How a designer’s experiments with paint, and a manufacturer’s curiosity created a smash-hit.
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Products
Granby Workshop Reinvents Encaustic
This classic Victorian ceramic gets a sustainability update for the 21st century, courtesy of a U.K manufacturer.
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Profiles
Game Changers 2020: Kevin Kimwelle and ICON on Social Equity in Building
In the first of four pairings of our annual Game Changers series, a South African architect and Texas construction company share the goal of making housing cheap, accessible, and livable for all.
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Projects
Meet the Nike Space Hippie, a Cannibal Sneaker Made from Trash
The futuristic-funky sneaker collection, which launches this week, is a step toward sustainability and material circularity for the footwear industry.
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Projects
From Jan van Eyck to nendo, Design Museum Gent Catalogs How Research Informs Color
Marking the recent restoration of van Eyck's canonical Ghent Altarpiece, the exhibition lays out Experience Rooms, a Pigment Walk, furniture pieces, and histories of color.