A nice video tour of famed American architect John Lautner‘s Sheats Goldstein Residence, one of Lautner’s most acclaimed structures (after the Chemosphere, probably). You might recognize the house as the place where the Dude gets drugged in The Big Lebowski, although that was supposed to be in Malibu, but who’s counting. The tour is narrated […]

Charles and Ray Eames are almost as synonymous with Los Angeles — namely Venice Beach where their studio was located — as Frank Lloyd Wright was to Chicago. They made their indelible mark as monumental designers inextricably linked to the fields of modern architecture and furniture for over a half century. The Eames Office, widely […]

For anyone who enjoys both the sight of a well-designed building and the written word as much as I do, pay close attention. Moleskine, the Italian brand best known for their notebooks, planners, and journals, is launching a series of cloth-bound monographs, entitled Inspiration and Process in Architecture. The collection looks into the design process […]

Post-WWII Japan led to a lot of change for the visual makeup of the country. Given a nearly blank slate by the massive devastation the country suffered during the war, a group of architects, artists and designers worked to plan and think of new ways to rebuild the country once again. With a super-creative bureaucracy […]

Israeli designer Ofra Lapid has created a series entitled Broken Houses that consists of small scale models of abandoned structures, barns and homes meticulously recreated to seem absolutely real. Using photographs found online as starting points, Lapid makes the scale models and photographs them, isolated in a studio with a grey background so the full […]

Thierry Lasry has teamed up with the French yet again. Alongside band Liquid Architecture and artist Thomas Lelu, Lasry has designed a limited edition frame called the “Liquid 2.” The shades offer a refreshing take on the aviator style, using a plastic frame and unique “W”-shaped bridge. With three different trims — white, black and […]

In 1993 William Gibson wrote an infamous critique on Singapore in Wired, entitled “Disneyland With the Death Penalty“. 18 years later, chewing gum is still banned, and his portrayal of a sanitized, technocratic, insipidly consumerist culture still has some truth to it. So what would he make of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel? Whether arriving […]

The Modernist is another edition to Gestalten’s collected body of books that “document and anticipate vital movements in design, illustration, architecture, and typography as well as urban and contemporary design.” The book is a collection of work in contemporary graphic design and illustration that is heavily influenced by classic modernism, usually created with a limited […]