Blog - Design Bureau
  • Rising Standards
    Issue 05

    Rising Standards

    One California architect’s vision to elevate the community with space-conscious construction

  • Birdhouse Art Auction

    Birdhouse Art Auction

    Help Chicago House continue to provide services to those afflicted with HIV/AIDS by scoring yourself a fancy new birdhouse

  • Dialogue: Alissa Walker

    Dialogue: Alissa Walker

    “Manhattan,” from Prettymaps, a series of interactive maps that pushes the “limits of modern browsers and the aesthetic boundaries of traditional cartography.”

  • The New Modern Farmhouse
    Issue 05

    The New Modern Farmhouse

    Patkau Architects designs a slick, linear farmhouse in British Columbia

  • Deadly Illustration
    Issue 05

    Deadly Illustration

    Russian graphic designer Alexey Malina’s mysteriously minimal poster series, “Seven Sins”

  • Golden Age Iron

    Golden Age Iron

    We check in with former “For Hire” subject Brian Anderson and get the lowdown on his recent show in Milan

  • Infographics in Context

    Infographics in Context

    These inspired infographics from Danish graphic designer Peter Orntoft cleverly merge statistics and photography

  • Children’s Museum of the Arts

    Children’s Museum of the Arts

    Work Architecture Company designed a new, experiential space for the Children’s Museum of the Arts, set to open this fall

  • Snarkitecture

    Snarkitecture

    A foam interior for Richard Chai in NYC that allows for endless customization

  • Dialogue: Fatimah Kabba

    Dialogue: Fatimah Kabba

    Recent SVA graduate Fatimah Kabba discusses her new board game and the importance of mixing play with design

  • Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont

    Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont

    The 22nd edition of an annual graphic design festival in France celebrates Olivetti’s legacy

  • Peep Show: Alex Fuller

    Peep Show: Alex Fuller

    The Post Family’s Alex Fuller reveals his prized possessions and talks hot dogs and blankies

  • Creating Unique Experiences
    Issue 05

    Creating Unique Experiences

    Escape into the world of ICRAVE, a design firm that can transform any space into an experiential getaway unlike any other

  • Unfolding Apartment

    Unfolding Apartment

    Normal Projects’ colorful storage solution for a New York studio apartment

  • Everything Olds is New Again
    Issue 05

    Everything Olds is New Again

    How a former New York auto factory became one couple’s new loft

  • Wedding Invitation = Confetti

    Wedding Invitation = Confetti

    An unique wedding invitation in two parts from Spanish design studio La caja de tipos

  • Dialogue: Product Placement

    Dialogue: Product Placement

    Julie Taraska and Kimberly Oliver are behind Product Placement, a blog and series of design events focused on the process rather than the finished product

  • From Inhabitable to Wearable

    From Inhabitable to Wearable

    For her new S/S 2011 line, architect-turned-fashion designer Lara Presber found inspiration in structural forms