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

Mark Goetz is an accomplished furniture designer whose work for Herman Miller stands next to mid-century classics by Eames and other legends. He is a source of inspiration to his students and a source of advice to his former students. We met him in his Manhattan studio and discussed his approach. www.markgoetz.com What is your personal [...]

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 [...]