Josef Schulz Tweaks Photos, Turning Architecture Into Abstract Art

Josef Schulz Tweaks Photos, Turning Architecture Into Abstract Art

Take a drive along a major highway and you'll see the fodder for Josef Schulz's photographic oeuvre: nondescript industrial factories, office parks, and clusters of hotel and restaurant signage bidding you to take the next exit. If you squint your eyes, you'll get an even better sense of Schulz's work: visual noise reduced to abstractions -- architectural structures and signage stripped of their defining features, including lettering, entrances, and windows, as well as function and wear.

Maison Martin Margiela Creates A Surreal Luxury Hotel

Maison Martin Margiela Creates A Surreal Luxury Hotel

Avant-garde Belgian fashion house Maison Martin Margiela has given a très-cool makeover to a fussy, luxury hotel in Paris, the high Holy Land of fussy, luxury hotels. Maison des Centraliens reopened to the public in May with a slick interior that turns this ornate, Second Empire townhouse (and former home of a Viennese princess) into a monument to the headscrewy Belgian surrealism for which Maison Martin Margiela earned its fashion-world star.

Can Innovation Really Be Reduced To A Process?

Can Innovation Really Be Reduced To A Process?

Rumors of the failure of design thinking  appear to have been somewhat overblown. At the recent Design Research conference in Seattle, the consensus reportedly held that whether or not you like the term, design thinking is here to stay. At a recent panel discussion in New York, "Design Thinking: Dead or Alive?" it was hard to find any of the speakers (of which I was one) quibbling with more than the fact that it wasn't a very interesting question.