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Edition 024
Intriguing Objects
Unexpected shapes, painted details and a little humor give familiar objects a different kind of presence.
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Edition 023
Love Hultén
Part instrument, part sculpture, part wonderfully strange experiment.
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Edition 022
Texture & Personality
Ribbing, mohair, horsehair, sheepskin, woven textile, and patchwork upholstery each produce a different character.
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Edition 021
Imaginary Spaces
Eight invented places whose atmosphere, scale and mystery suggest stories beyond the frame.
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Edition 020
Beautiful Books
Eight books where cloth, foil, image, type and material make looking inseparable from reading.
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Edition 019
Buttons & Dials
Knobs, switches, grids, and small hits of color give physical controls their distinct character.
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Edition 018
From the archive
Five graphic references, collected together. Identities, packaging, typography and a vintage toy maker’s mark.
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Edition 017
What Makes Bold Interiors Livable?
Five interiors ask how spectacle, saturation, darkness, pattern and one expressive object can stay engaging beyond the first impression.
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Edition 016
What Can We Learn From Another Medium?
Five creative prompts explore how a mural, relief, garment, film scene and building can spark ideas in another medium.
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Edition 015
What Can Unrelated Images Teach Us?
Four unexpected pairings ask what juxtaposition can reveal about mood, texture, gesture and softness across unrelated forms of design.
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Edition 014
The Power of Circle
Five references show how one elemental geometry can direct movement, support the body, measure time, center a system and focus light.
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Edition 013
Designing the Reveal
Five references show how controlling what is shown, implied and discovered can create anticipation, simplify information, reward interaction and connect enclosure to place.
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Edition 012
The Work of Color
Five references show how color can direct action, organize systems, reveal state and transform atmosphere.
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Edition 011
One Image Leads to Another
Five references show how carrying a relationship forward—rather than copying a look—can turn collecting into design thinking.
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Edition 010
The Center of the Experience
Five spaces show how giving a defining activity clear visual priority makes purpose, movement and experience intuitive.
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Edition 009
Ornament With a Job
Five works show how ornament can create rhythm, hierarchy, identity and narrative—not simply decorate a surface.
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Edition 008
The Third Identity
The result is a third identity with a character and meaning that neither source could create alone.
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Edition 007
The places we enter in our mind
Five spatial prompts that invite us to project ourselves into color, light, thresholds and sound before physically entering a place.
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Edition 006
Your personal archive trains your eye
A five-step practice for turning instinctive attraction into design understanding: notice, preserve, revisit, name and transform.
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Edition 005
Vegetation is part of the plan
Five references showing how vegetation can act as a living design material—setting the plan, shaping arrival, filtering climate and carrying identity.
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Edition 004
The mark leaves the page
Material, mobility and scale show how graphic forms gain new roles when they move from representation into use.
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Edition 003
When furniture becomes art
Painting, pattern, textile and relief show how useful objects can carry authorship and become active participants in a room.
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Edition 002
The beauty of useful information
Labels, documents, indexes, construction and specifications show how information can become identity.
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Edition 001
The expressive power of restraint
Across identity, interiors, packaging and objects, clarity is not emptiness. It is editing.
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