Republic of Fritz Hansen is celebrating 60 years with the Egg
Ever wondered how Arne Jacobsen’s iconic lounge chair is made? Explore the original craftsmanship of cutting, stretching and stitching the Egg™.
Ever wondered how Arne Jacobsen’s iconic lounge chair is made? Explore the original craftsmanship of cutting, stretching and stitching the Egg™.
Dieter Rams talks about the ideas behind his system furniture design and about the challenges a younger generation of furniture designers will be confronted with in the future.
A boxy contemporary on the sloping streets of San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood, reveals his wide-ranging interests and his knack for imbuing everyday items and spaces with beauty and utility in equal measure.
Iratzoki Lizaso is an industrial design studio created in the Basque Country, in 2016. Having worked together over several years, Jean Louis Iratzoki and Ander Lizaso decided to form a partnership
Bill and Terry Timmy are introducing handcrafted water to the world with an almost pathological attention to craftsmanship and a thirst for helping people become less thirsty.
The Timmy Brothers. They make water.
What makes Japanese denim special is not only the materials, machinery, and techniques, but also the people and ideas behind the process. This film reveals the intense passion and insight behind Japanese denim, but also poses the question; what is the future of these garments that are so deeply rooted in the past?
As most brands move toward what’s fast, cheap, and easy, Knickerbocker Manufacturing Co. reminds us the value of the opposite — away from speed, away from mass, away from thoughtless consumption.
Almond aim is to be the premier lifestyle brand of the Surfer-Craftsman. Hand-built surfboards are the foundation of what they do here; but whatever the pursuit may be, they’re a brand that believes in investing the time and committing to the process. Their aim is to make timeless, essential products for surfers and craftsmen of all varieties.
Recently Alain, who manages the business with his wife, Geneviève, wanted to create a new brand. This carries the symbolic name of BOSC and is based on the experience and know-how in cabinet-making and upholstery for household chairs.
Sinverb is the new platform where Creatives can build a professional portfolio free of charge and connect to Companies looking for competent professionals, ideas and products able to revolutionize the market in which they operate.
Designit is a global strategic design firm. They design product-service experiences, making business transformation happen. With their clients, they create experiences for humans, enabled by technology. Together, they design a smarter future for everyone.
Hannes Schreckensberger and Célia Picard founder of Franco-Austrian design studio Celia-Hannes stayed six week-long in Cape Town – the World Design Capital 2014 to collaborate with local craftsmen from limited resource areas of Cape Town.
In late 19th century, a carpet trading concern was established by a noble and versatile business merchant named Sheikh Din Muhammad. Later his all four sons carried forward and expanded carpets business and enhanced its prestige and goodwill by dint of relentless working, pragmatic planning and good business governance.
Isamu Noguchi, born in 1904 in Los Angeles to the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and the American writer Leonie Gilmour, studied at Columbia University and the Leonardo da Vinci Art School.
Würtz style is simultaneously contemporary in design and archaic in the crafting. It’s been described as timeless but is also future-oriented in the way it supersedes both heavily floral traditional fine china dinner sets and early 21st century minimalist white faience.
The Klint Trust Fund was established by Jan Klint in 1972 and still plays an important role in the company’s financial infrastructure. The foundation grants yearly scholarships to young, up and coming architects and designers.
When Noah was young he imagined that he would spend his life in a small cottage in the English countryside painting and drawing alone. Yet he has found that collaborating with others has been the greatest joy and made him a far stronger artist than he could have ever been on his own.
A glimpse into the life of master stone carver, Heather Lawson.
Sean Sutcliffe and Terence Conran founded Benchmark in 1984 with a dream of creating a craft based workshop that produced furniture on a scale that would provide customers with high quality, beautifully designed furniture made in a responsible way and at a reasonable price.
Whatever amount of money you gather, it will definitely support their project. There is no pressure to fulfill the entire goal. They are thrilled to receive whatever you contribute. Every contribution counts!
There is no question that Coca-Cola is a successful & iconic beverage, one which many believe to be the “perfect” product. Their goal with this spot is tell a true & timeless story of substance in order to humanize the concept of “perfection.”
Since the debut of the first collection, Oliver Peoples has maintained a passion for superior eyewear crafted of the finest materials with careful attention to detail.
Each frame is inspired and created in the design studio in West Hollywood, California.
Wefi is a West-Coast board builder featuring custom hollow western red cedar boards. They fully-custom air-chambered boards are an entirely different type of ride. Constructed from natural elements found on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, their boards provide a melding medium that unite the rider with the energy of the wave.
The work of designer and educator Josh Owen is at once simple, practical and quietly innovative. Although the typologies that Owen creates are commonly described as refined, iconic or minimalist, he defines function in humanistic terms.
What does a typical IKEA supplier look like? Maybe you imagine a large factory filled with people making thousands of products a day. But we also work with much smaller producers. Artisans of handmade crafts, producing limited numbers of unique items. Meet the social entrepreneurs whose businesses are changing the lives of people in their communities.
Ishinomaki Lab is striving to push the DIY concept forward to broaden the horizons of DIY design, helping to energise people and the community as a local-running independent company. Ishinomaki Laboratory began as a workshop for the local community in a coastal area of Ishinomaki-city, Miyagi prefecture, which was devastated by the tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011.
Waste to Waves, a surf focused “styrofoam” recycling program from your friends at Sustainable Surf, that seeks to turn your trash into more sustainable surf gear.
Kwangho’s childhood among tradition and elements is the creative force driving his original output into an oeuvre of a beautiful symphony of design and crafts. Led by emotional memory instead of precise calculation, Kwangho Lee provides an alternative view on mundane materials.
An inside look at Jeff Sheldon’s story, design philosophy, and why Ugmonk is more than just another t-shirt brand.
Kigali Chair is a DIY wheelchair made with recycled material, using parts of wheelchairs and useless bicycles. With an easy building system from metal pieces and wheels, we can transform a common chair in a wheelchair.
This movie by Ancarani Studio, under the creative direction of Paola Manfrin, reveals through the minutia of the manufacturing process, the genesis of a luxury Beretta shotgun. A poetic journey through sterile robotic rooms is blended with five centuries of Beretta’s history, culminating in the final assembly by the gunsmith, ever the wise guardian of the art of manufacturing.
In this making of video you’ll see some of the recording sessions Diego did when he created the DTS Sound Signature. He sound designed sounds out of milk, lentils and water balloons.
A line between bravery and fear. Between recklessness and common sense. Two meters without margin of error. That is where the barnacles live. Where Serxo lives.
Sentayehu Teshale is a true craftsman. Sometimes you can see Sentayehu working in public around Addis Ababa. Sentayehu has been making stools in Ethiopia for over 20 years.
“The revival of letterpress is a painstaking effort. However, we are trying the best to keep old arts and old machinery together because that is all the tangible things we love.”
A short film commissioned by Steinway & Sonsrevealing the artistry and craft that goes into building one of the most iconic instruments of all – The Grand Piano.
In a crowded Philadelphia garage, Adam Cramer revives vintage motorcycles and the American tradition of grease-stained self-reliance.
“In the design part of my life, I put a lot of effort into preserving the authenticity of the Eames Furniture. I wanted put some of those ideas and experiences into video form. Because in this day and age, authenticity is celebrated but not always valued. We try to do both at the Eames Office.” Eames Demetrios
While on holiday in Nepal earlier this summer, Jigme T. Tenzing visited his friend’s tibetan carpet factory.
“Why my painting are shocking ? They are just relax people…naked people, they are showing their vaginas. But what is a vagina, man ?… It’s the most important tool in life.”
ALBERTO MIELGO is a Spanish painter.
A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier.
Samuel Zygmuntowicz (born 1956) is a contemporary luthier. He began his instrument making training when he was thirteen years old and studied making and restoration under Peter Prier, Carl Becker and René Morel
“Letterpress isn’t dying. It’s very alive. There’s a slew of us across the country: in barns, in basements, in sheds, and in warehouses.” -B. Baker
Wesley Taylor is a graphic designer living in Detroit. He’s not in Detroit because it needs him, he’s there because of the city’s long legacy of making, and it fits him well.
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