Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk have a conversation with the Chicago Reader about their studio here.

Luftwerk’s installation Solarise creates a colorful and light-filled dialogue with its containing space, the Garfield Park Conservatory. See parts of the installation and learn more about it here.

Luftwerk talks with Chicago Magazine about their take on [temporarily] altering the most famous buildings in the country for a new take on visual experience. Read about it here.

Enjoy some gorgeous photos of Thaddeus Wolfe’s glass vessels, courtesy of Artsy.

Architectural Digest on Jonathan Olivares new work and the app that goes with it.

Take a look a Co.Design‘s talk with Jonathan Olivares process for the Aluminum Bench.

London architect Pernilla Ohrstedt and Los Angeles designer Jonathan Olivares collaborate on a new office furniture showroom at the Vitra headquarters. 

Check it out on Dezeen!

Jonathan  Olivares Aluminum bench released in conjunction with Neo Con here at Volume Gallery.

See more at Designo.

Be the first to try the Beta app for Jonathan Olivares Aluminum Bench.

Felicia Ferrone and Christopher Gentner  join forces at Pavilion.

See more on Interior Design.

Check out Forbes look at the Snarkitecture COS installation at Milan Design Week.

A retrospective article on the last seven years of Rich Brilliant Willing.

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Dezeen Magazine explores Snarkitecture’s architectural camouflage collection, featuring marble and subway tile  patterns.

The National Building Museum is partnering up this summer with Snarkitecture to bring the beech to you!

See more on archdaily.

Another great piece on Sung Jang’s Mobi pieces currently in New York at Chamber! 

Check it out on Fast Company

Artists Tanya Aguiñiga and Nancy Baker Cahill Exhibit New Work at “SHEvening”

Check out this interview with Tanya Aguiniga in the latest issue of LA Magazine!

Check out Designboom’s Post on the COS installation by  Snarkitecture. Great photos and video for those that could not make to Milan.

This is not a duet, is a room-scale installation by Sung Jang, composed of a 3D printed module. See more on Dezeen 

Check out Snarkitecture’s Retrospective by COMPLEX

Goop Pop Up Shop held in Chicago last month. Elle Decor has a inside look at the shop including work by Tanya Aguiniga.

Congratulations to Norman Kelley for being chosen to participate in the inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennial.

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Bec Brittain talks to Dezeen about her education and experience that has informed the work she produces today. Read it here.

Bec Brittain discusses production design with Metropolis Magazine in this article.

COS has commissioned an installation by Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustnen of Snarkitecture at Milan’s Salone del Mobile, inspired by the brand’s spring/summer collection. The collection features technical lightness and luminescence, which is reflected in the installation through an immersive translucent cave. The entire structure is constructed by thousands of strips of layered fabrics hanging from the ceiling to the floor. The installation is open between April 14 to 19, located in the art district of Brera. Check out renderings here, and make sure to drop by the stunning installation if you’re in the city.

A Sleek Ball Pit is Coming to D.C.
“The Beach” by Snarkitecture opens in July at the National Building Museum. Read about it in the this post by Architect Magazine.

Via Citylab:

Here’s the next big museum stunt of 2015: The National Building Museum has commissioned the design firm Snarkitecture to build a beach inside the museum this summer. Read about it here.

Chicago Magazine’s series of weekend plans from notable, in-the-know locals—a.k.a. people we like: Neville Bryan Assistant Curator at the Art Institute Karen Kice. Chatter: Architecture Talks Back opens on Saturday, April 11.

Here for full article.

“The next generation of American designers is experimenting with form – inspired by everything from organic shapes to the funky geometries of postmodernism.”

Does that synopsis apply to Muecke? Click the link and decide for yourself.

Click the link to see Split by Snarkitecture featured on COS’s blog today!

While the names 31-year-old Minneapolis-based designer Jonathan Muecke gives his work may seem perfectly straightforward, the results are anything but. His Decentralized Light (DL) (2013), for example, takes the shape of a three-foot-tall topless aluminum table frame whose nonagon-shaped perimeter contains tiny recessed LEDs; the inconspicuous-sounding Divider (2011) turns out to be a five-foot-tall baby-blue wedge, more minimalist sculpture than decorative screen; while others, such as the compelling Frame (2011), a tent-like metal structure, or Miami Vertical Shape (2013), a kidney-shaped wall hanging, seem to defy function altogether. “The objects I make have a presence just as much as they do themselves away. They put up a fight,” muses Muecke.

Read more of the article here.

RO/LU sneak peak of the March 29th T Magazine Design Issue here.

RO/LU collaborated with Dante Carlos to create a piece and book that explores meditation, objects and space that will be presented by the The Center for Ongoing Research & Projects MARCH 28TH, 2015 — APRIL 26TH, 2015 in Columbus Ohio. The book, along with an edition of engraved bricks and felt will be available soon. Read more about the project here.

The Walker Art Center/ Minnesota by Design

From the world’s quietest room to the Honeycrisp apple, from the humble sticky note to the Artist-formerly-known-as-Prince glyph, this collection offers a sampling of what makes Minnesota a hotbed of inventive and creative design.

Minnesota by Design is a web-based initiative by the Walker Art Center to document the rich landscape of design across the state. The project seeks to increase public awareness of the human-built world in Minnesota — its landscapes, buildings, products, and graphics, both past and present — and the role that design thinking and practice plays in its realization. Our collection has been seeded with some 100 designs that reflect exemplary instances of practical ingenuity, creative thinking, beautiful form-giving, social and cultural impact, and innovative uses of technology.

Experience the initiative here.

Tanya Aquiñiga on Designing Outside Your Own Reality and Using Craft as a Way to Diversify Conversations in Society

Tanya Aquiñiga discusses her multifaceted practice in the latest edition of the Core77 Questionnaire. Read more here.

The Graham Foundation is pleased to present Treatise: Why Write Alone?—an exhibition and publication project that brings together fourteen young design offices to consider the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. Organized by Chicago and Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai, the project grows out of a recent Graham Foundation grant to Lai, whose interest in discursive practices and non-conformist approaches to architecture led him to ask his peers working in the realm of conceptual architecture: Why write? And, why write alone? In response to these questions, Treatise presents an exhibition of works by this core group of designers as well as an individual treatise from each office. Together, the exhibition and publications provide a platform to investigate the collective and individual stakes that emerge from this temporary alliance of designers as they explore architecture’s representational limits and possibilities.

Opening January 23, 2015, the exhibition features over 200 works, from drawings and models to multi-media installations, by design offices that utilize diverse—and often unexpected—strategies, forms, and materials. The participants include: Bittertang(New York); Bureau Spectacular (Chicago); CAMES/gibson (Chicago); Design With Company (Chicago); Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (New York); First Office (Los Angeles); is-office (Chicago); Andrew Kovacs (Los Angeles); Alex Maymind (Los Angeles); Norman Kelley (Chicago and New York); Point Supreme(Athens, Greece); Softlab (New York); SPEEDISM (Brussels, Belgium); and Young & Ayata (New York).

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