Design Review | 'Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi': Midcentury Moderns in a Cross-Cultural Conversation
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A bamboo chair provides a departure point for the exhibition to compare the roles of Noguchi and Kenmochi in midcentury modern design.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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Fast company It&#146;s a familiar tension in business. Business people think designers are mere stylists; designers think business people are Neanderthals who forfeit quality for profit. That&#146;s because traditional business runs on logic that is inductive (using observation to prove something works) and deductive (using principles to prove that something must be). But designers rely on abductive reasoning. Huh? It&#146;s ...
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Designers who stuck close to their patriotic toots have produced some standout collections
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Three notable exhibitions on the Upper East Side pivot around Minimalism, one of modern artâs most enduringly popular styles.
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To engage with an artwork, especially contemporary works, can be a daunting task.
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Serkan Ozkayaâs most recent scrivener project grew out of a fascination with the interplay between the idea of the original and the copy in an ever more mass-produced postmodern world.
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A review of the Chris Benz, Doo.Ri, Proenza Schouler, Thakoon fall collections in New York.
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Can modern dance survive and develop, many wondered early on, without a core syllabus like balletâs? The same question might be asked of Butoh.
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Black sweater or no, some architects find they can channel their idealism into real-world projects.
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Donald Norman, author of "The Design of Everday Things," analyzes the automatic nature of the new Times building.
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KYOTO, Japan -- His fingers muscled from almost a century of weaving, Yasujiro Yamaguchi worked the humming loom in his private workshop. Patiently lacing golden threads through a warp of auburn silk, he fashioned a bolt of kimono fabric blooming with an autumn garden in shades of tea green, ginger, and plum.
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A Swedish designer takes an American idea and reinvents it.
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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The Studio MuseumÂs survey offers an inside view of Africa, detailed by handmade, graphically inventive and conceptually imaginative images.
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Some thoughts on the New York shows (and parties) from Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors and Narciso Rodriguez.
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Artist, architect, a modern da Vinci -- the critics don't quite know how to describe Thomas Heatherwick. But they love his designs. By Tim McKeough from Wired magazine.