July 19, 2019
Sound Advice for Open Office Design
Open offices are here to stay, and so is the open office noise problem. Why is that? A lot of it can be attributed to poor office design.
Carpet Tile
Interface July 5, 2019
Beautiful Thinking: Concept Designers Story
Beautiful thinking is all about being able to see the potential in any space, and taking influences from the world around us to create stunning interior design schemes that impress and engage visitors. Sometimes, it’s the most challenging brief that sparks the most visionary design.
October 18, 2018
Materials in Design
An Interview with Kari Pei, product designer Louis Kahn famously told his students to interrogate their materials for design inspiration. The modernist architect would phrase this advice as hypothetical dialogue: “You say to a brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ And brick says to you, ‘I like an arch.’ And you say to brick, ‘Look,…
September 25, 2018
Analogue Meets Digital
David Oakey’s latest global collection for Interface, Visual Code, celebrates technology and handcrafted products in that vein.
February 20, 2017
Mr. June – Adventures in Colour and Rhythm
This is the story of Mr. June (David Louf), a Dutch artist who started doing graffiti in 1985, at the age of 14. Now, over 30 years later, he runs his own graphic design studio with Yves van Asten and is still fascinated by the transition between 2D and 3D. Over the years they’ve worked…
November 14, 2016
Inspired by the Art of Hand-crafting
Even when craftspeople are working to a pattern, hand spun or woven textiles are one-of-a-kind items – small variations make each one unique. Saori weaving, created by Misao Jo in 1968, celebrates this idea of random beauty. Unlike other hand-weaving techniques, Saori is completely freestyle with no rules, restrictions, or samples to follow, and where…