Interviews

Stephanie and Bruce are an awesome duo who both teach and practice product design in Chicago. Their studio, Materious, is well-known for conceptual, discursive pieces that use products as a vehicle for getting messages to consumers. What is your design philosophy, and what are you hoping to do with your work? Bruce: We both teach, so Materious [...]

Interviews

For almost as long as I’ve been interested in industrial design, I’ve been reading the Core77 website. Between their inspirational blog posts, informational articles and conversational community, you can get lost for hours. We asked Allan to take us back to the beginning, and found out how they started. Core77 started in 1995. That’s really early; [...]

Interviews

Robert was the teacher who taught Kegan and I to love the technical side of manufacturing processes. In his studio, we designed Egg Pants and the Smoking Gun. Needless to say, he was hugely influential in the development of Design Glut. We decided to interview him about what it’s like to be both a designer [...]

News

This week we’ve focused on talking to people in the gifty-housewares industry. (That might not be a technical industry term, but I think it’s plenty descriptive.) I’d like to cap the week off with my first foray into gifty-housewares: the development of Egg Pants. I get asked a lot about the story of developing that [...]

News

Design can only change the world if it leaves the small circle of design-community intellectuals and reaches the people it is meant to help. That abandoned project in your portfolio probably won’t change anything. Neither will a lovely rendering, all by itself. If there’s one thing that I’ve learned, it’s that change requires hard work, [...]