Herman Miller, the multi-billion-dollar high-end furniture giant famous for its $800 Aeron chairs, is stepping into a brand new market: the affordable one. The new Sayl chair is available for the low, low price of $399.
That's relatively close to the price of a chair at Staples -- and you won't find anything with such notable design credentials near that price point in the task-chair market.
The Living Kitchen, by Parisian designer Michaël Harboun, is a lofty idea for a kitchen that literally comes alive at your touch. Using your fingers, you can grow faucets and sinks from the walls. You can draw circles on countertops to whip up bowls and vegetable choppers. Think of it a giant touchphone -- that shapeshifts.
A new logo for Gap that debuted to much criticism Wednesday might not be the perfect fit, Bill Chandler, vice president of corporate communications of Gap, tells Co.Design. "We love the design, but we're open to other ideas and we want to move forward with the best logo possible," he says.
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Marathon season is almost upon us! So gird yourself for pictures of grannies with more vigor than you and men with bloody nipples. And if you're a runner, pray to whatever god you worship that the temperature is within a hair of 53 degrees.
About the same time as the much-maligned new Gap logo made its infamous debut, the logo also launched a (very, very unofficial) Twitter account of its own. Going by the name of @GapLogo, (s)he makes quips about the new look, such as: "FINE. I wanted to sit on this for a while but I can't keep it a secret any longer. The blue square is a scratch-n-sniff. Go ahead, try it."
Dennis Maher's sculptures are precisely what they seem to be: Old buildings that've been razed, slashed, busted, and shattered then thrown into an artful jumble as if Gordon Matta Clark had gotten his hands on a wrecking ball.
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