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Balance, Design, Products December 7, 2012

Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week

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Here’s what we’ve been reading on the Web all week long.

1. Design Milk’s sneak peak at an upcoming addition to the Herman Miller Collection: Picnic Sofa by Industrial Facility.

2. Architect William O’Brien Jr.’s design of the Hendee-Borg House (check out the the saw-tooth roof line outside, and the various Eames pieces inside) (via Plastolux).

3. A look at the new Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art at Co.Design.

4. The cover of Print magazine’s Regional Design Annual for its depictions of the various places and ways we work today.

5. This article on the influence of “Powers of Ten,” the experimental film by Charles and Ray Eames, at Slate.

6. The spirited workspace of the UK-based juice and fruit smoothie company Innocent, designed by Stiff + Trevillion and featured at designboom.

7. “Remembering Evelyn Ackerman, a midcentury master of craft” at the LA Times.

8. Another loss, this time in the field of architecture: Brazil’s Oscar Niemeyer (via Architizer).

9. These interiors by St Louis-based CURE Design Group at Desire to Inspire.

10. Per ArchDaily, AIA has just ranked Columbus, Indiana as the U.S.’s 6th “Most Architecturally Important City,” thanks in part to designs like this.

Featured in the photo above: Nelson Coconut Lounge Chair, Nelson Pedestal Table, and Nelson Pedestal Stool

Balance, Design, Products October 29, 2012

Six Ways to Sam Hecht & Kim Colin

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The founders of London-based Industrial Facility, designers Sam Hecht and Kim Colin round out the final week of the Why Design series on Herman Miller. Explore how the design duo makes the connection between design, daily life, and the environments we inhabit. Innovation, form, and good old common sense abound among these Six Ways to Sam Hecht and Kim Colin.

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