We’re joined by Brooklyn-based industrial designer Joseph Guerra of Guerra Workplace. He’s gained world-wide approval for his work for shoppers like Cooper Hewitt, Away, Google, Harry’s, and our absolute favourite, Outside Voices. (His cork Shapes Bundle for the athleisure retailer stays indisputably glorious.) He shares his considering behind a few of his hottest merchandise, just like the Life Measure Pitcher, which operates as a form of arch midway level between eyeballing measurements and tedious precision.
We discuss to the Brooklyn-based artists, sculptors, designers, and all-around polymaths, Wade Jeffree and Leta Sobierajski, who work collectively as Wade and Leta. Their work, as they put it’s “to create satisfying and emotional visuals starting from standard identities to colorfully charged compositions and installations” – for shoppers starting from Google and Instagram to Herman Miller, Gucci, and Comme des Garçons.
“Authenticity is my north star,” says designer Mark Grattan – founder and artistic director of VIDIVIXI (it means “I noticed, I lived” and references a Victor Hugo poem), marketing consultant to Solange Knowles for her hyper-creative platform Saint Heron, and the much-lauded winner of the debut season of Ellen’s Subsequent Nice Designer earlier this 12 months. On this week’s Milkshake, the normally Mexico Metropolis-based Grattan joins us from his sublet in New York Metropolis to share his ideas on artistic self-preservation, dangers, and authenticity, and the hyperlinks between them.
We chat with New York-based inside designer Melissa Lee, artistic director of Bespoke Solely, a New York design agency dedicated to “creating areas and experiences with a contemporary method to understated luxurious” – like within the Wilton, Connecticut residence proven above. Melissa joins us from her “favourite house on the planet” – her fantastically lit bed room – to speak us by way of a few of her foundational practices, together with her perception within the energy of lighting.
We talked with Utharaa Zacharias, + Palaash Chaudhary, who based soft-geometry in 2018, about essentially the most valuable object of their studio, how (and if) they handle to separate their private lives from their skilled lives, and Think about, for Unsure Occasions, a digital gallery they created throughout lockdown.
Fernando Mastrangelo is an artist, designer, and most just lately, visitor decide on the HBOMax competitors present Ellen’s Subsequent Nice Designer. On this episode, Mastrangelo shares the talent he most must be taught, updates us on his exhibition-centric plans for 2022, and previews his subsequent massive journey, following a cross-continent journey from Patagonia to Santiago, Chile.
When you haven’t seen one in all Liz West’s installations, you’re lacking out: They’re pure coloration and lightweight, made sculptural. The impact of her work – typically made for public areas and produced in collaboration with companions like London’s Pure Historical past Museum, the Nationwide Belief, and London Design Competition – is transporting. Invigorating, sure – cheerful, for positive. In some way West’s work is greater than that, as effectively. It’s as if she’s channeled and manipulated sunshine into her work, creating areas which can be by some means extra alive than they have been pre-installation.
We requested Invoice Burnett and Dave Evans, the co-founders of the Stanford Life Design Lab and authors of Designing Your Life, our most urgent questions on our future work life: Will or not it’s distant or within the workplace? How will we sq. our presumably many-sided sense of goal? And eventually, how outdated is definitely too outdated to go to medical faculty?
We talked to Melodie Leung, affiliate director with Zaha Hadid Architects, about what it was like working with one in all up to date structure’s most influential figures – from when she acquired the decision that may take her to London (the place the Chicago-bred architect has lived for the previous 15 years) to what she realized from the enduring determine.
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Pulp Design Studios’ Beth Dotolo and Carolina V. Gentry chat with us about all of the issues that make a home a house – that make it a spectacular dwelling, with a welcoming ease, a signature scent, neatly (and inexpensively) curated artwork on the partitions, and extra.
