Blog - Design Bureau
  • Bureau Experts: Epstein Joslin Architects
    Issue 08

    Bureau Experts: Epstein Joslin Architects

    Partners in business and life, Deborah Epstein and Alan Joslin describe six remarkable experiences that continue to inspire them today

  • Dialogue: Anders Nilsen

    Dialogue: Anders Nilsen

    A conversation with award-winning graphic novelist Anders Nilsen, whose latest work is a 600-page epic entitled Big Questions

  • Louboutin’s UK Retrospective

    Louboutin’s UK Retrospective

    Early next year, the Design Museum will take a look back at the 20-year career of the iconic French shoe designer

  • A Northwestern Design Nook
    Issue 08

    A Northwestern Design Nook

    The lantern-like studio of an artist who knows that even in the dead of winter, her studio will be a well-lit fortress for creativity

  • A Call to End Chair Design

    A Call to End Chair Design

    See why Finland-based studio Ore.e Ref is pleading with designers to stop designing chairs for an entire year

  • Flicking Through Buildings

    Flicking Through Buildings

    We catch up with Archizines curator Elias Redstone on his new exhibition in London

  • Fill in the Blank: John Senhauser
    Issue 08

    Fill in the Blank: John Senhauser

    The laid-back architect talks mind-blowing structures, why failure is never the end, and his once-potential career as a cowboy

  • TV-Inspired Chuck Taylors

    TV-Inspired Chuck Taylors

    Using the classic canvas shoes as his, uh, canvas, Boston-based illustrator/designer Jon Defreest created three wicked-cool sneaks

  • Recycle Your Phone

    Recycle Your Phone

    Designer Herald Ureña devised foolproof packaging that would allow consumers to mail their old, defunct cellphones to a recycling center

  • Inside/Out
    Issue 08

    Inside/Out

    Five photographers interpret what it means to be on the flip side of things

  • Renegade Architecture
    Issue 08

    Renegade Architecture

    Young designers are proving there’s more than one way to the top

  • Dialogue: Jesse Thorn

    Dialogue: Jesse Thorn

    “America’s Radio Sweetheart” gets down with design

  • Shwood’s Reality Show

    Shwood’s Reality Show

    Voted America’s favorite small business, the wooden eyewear specialist won a truckload of cash and is the star of its own online reality show

  • Debra Baxter’s Badass Jewelry
    Issue 08

    Debra Baxter’s Badass Jewelry

    If you’re looking for subtle, Debra Baxter’s whopping crystal showpieces are probably not for you

  • At Home & Work with Tony Chi
    Issue 08

    At Home & Work with Tony Chi

    The worldly designer gives us a look inside both of his artfully arranged homes and shares with us his style philosophy—or lack thereof

  • Cool & Confident
    Issue 08

    Cool & Confident

    Montreal interior designer René Desjardins discusses picking a team with talent, and why designers should consider getting a minor in psychology

  • Buzz Worthy
    Issue 08

    Buzz Worthy

    Straight outta London, graffiti for your dome

  • Sketching on the Run

    Sketching on the Run

    Illustrator Christoph Niemann ran the NYC marathon while drawing and tweeting along the way. How’s that for multitasking?