Six Ways to Go All-American
Celebrate our forthcoming Independence Day with a little tour of U.S.A-made items that are as all-American as apple pie, baseball, and the Aeron Chair.
Design, Products, Trends
July 3, 2012
Balance, Design, Trends
March 30, 2012
Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week
Friday already? Here’s are some smart posts (and a few videos) that kept us zooming through the week.
1. This video by artist Grant Taylor and Daniel Ostroff, editor of the design scholarship resource eamesdesigns.com, documenting their time together photographing 6,000 images for the site.
2. The shipping-container-turned-treehouse at Inhabit.
3. A stunning office space in Rio de Janeiro spotted by Contemporist.
4. Dreaming of stopping by for an afternoon snack in this innovative pastry boutique in San Pedro, Mexico (via Yatzer).
5. A helpful roundup of must-have tools for your home office from Entrepreneur.com.
6. The urban cabin for a writer spotted on officesnapshots.com.
7. A look at how the digital age is influencing furniture design at NYTimes.com.
8. Co.Design’s “An American-Made Miracle: How An Aeron Chair Gets Built Every 17 Seconds“ video.
9. Dwell.com’s tour of the E+ Green Home concept house outside of Seoul — possibly the country’s most sustainable house.
10. The new Design Museum Collection App for iPad featuring 59 “remarkable objects” from London’s Design Museum. (We’re especially fond of #38, #39, and #58.)
Balance, Products
March 20, 2012
Six Ways to Spring Colors
The first day of the spring season is here. Get a jump start with these happy hues. Read more
Balance, Design
March 16, 2012
Top 10: Best of the Web This Week
Here’s a quick look at what we’ve been reading this week on the Web.
1. Stylist Home’s “Surprising Uses for Pencils in an Office.”
2. The Art of Non-Conformity’s feature on this one-page career cheat sheet.
3. Apartment Therapy Tech reader Aya’s Setu side chair (above) — looks smart in her bright basement home office.
4. Speaking of interesting home offices, we think this pre-fab treehouse on Treehugger would make a good one.
5. Wanken’s post on the geometric illustrations of Justin Mezzell (check out the two Eames Lounge Chairs at the bottom — clever).
6. Take a look at these leather and stone paperweights found on Reference Library.
7. Appreciating the interoffice-envelope inspiration behind this chest at Field Day.
8. We’ve got four words for this house in Aroeira, Portugal by Aires Mateus: Herman Miller Collection Outdoor (via Yatzer).
9. The article on hyperconnectivity and how to manage it in The Economist.
10. And if you can’t disconnect, you can at least accessorize your smartphone with this roundup from Design*Sponge.
Design
March 1, 2012
Sinuous Guitars & the Eames’ Design Approach
By day, industrial designer Greg Opatik is Director of Design for Genesis Seating, one of the manufacturers that helps build our Eames Classic pieces of furniture. After work, Greg runs Sinuous, his Grand Rapids, Michigan-based company that crafts high-quality sculpted guitars. Here he tells us how he’s learned from what the Eames Office did in the past in order to create his own unique design in the present. Read more
Balance, Design, Technology
February 22, 2012
The Playlist: WORKtoDATE Design Director Greg Bennett
Take a listen to our latest music mix straight from York, Pennsylvania and the Eames-inspired home office of WORKtoDATE design director Greg Bennett. Read more
Balance, Design, Products
February 14, 2012
Six Ways with Red
Use these picks in Valentine’s Day’s signature color to inspire your space all year long. Read more
Design, Products
January 9, 2012
Vintage Ads: Eames and Girard
Vintage Ad Browser is the work of Philipp Lenssen – a German living in China. He has obsessively collected over 100,000 ads, mostly from America, that cover everything from furniture to typewriters.
The nice thing about this site is you can search by name or type (or even color). The not so great thing is the lack of info on each ad. The image above is tagged ”Alcoa Aluminum Unit Girard Design Charles Eames (1957)”. It reminds me of the Eames living room and also the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana. And it’s just one of an amazing array of vintage images to inspire you.
Balance, Design
January 4, 2012
Eames Documentary Online
If you missed the PBS screening last month of Eames: The Architect and the Painter you can now watch the film online here. And Eames Demetrios, grandson of Ray and Charles, sent me a handy link to a series of posts the Eames family has written about the film. You’ll get a personal insight into the documentary from the family.
Balance, Design, Products
December 15, 2011
Eames Documentary
I’m sure you’ve read about the new Eames documentary (if you haven’t you can right here). It will be screening on December 19 (check PBS for show times in your area) but in the meantime check out the companion site we’ve created, along with the very talented team at Hello.
It’s a great picture-driven timeline giving you a distinct glimpse into the design lives of Ray and Charles Eames. We’re running a giveaway in conjunction with the site. Just enter your email for a chance to win an Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman.
Watch Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter on PBS. See more from AMERICAN MASTERS.