Studio Visit: The Herman Miller Archive

We speak with Amy Auscherman about how looking back helps the brand move forward

On a recent visit to Herman Miller‘s headquarters we explored their impressive corporate archive. There we found many expected things like correspondence, old catalogs, sketches, swatches and rare pieces of furniture, along with unexpected treasures like shop floor-made templates for cutting wood pieces of modernist masterpieces and the negatives for the Eames‘ seminal 1977 film “Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of the Universe.” …

Audi Debuts The Next Generation A7

The sexy new Gran Turismo turns on a line

“Projects like this, as a designer, are a dream. Everyone wants to draw sporty cars,” says Sebastiano Russo, an Audi designer whose sketches helped land him a spot on one of Audi’s most exciting cars, the new Audi A7 fastback. Audi invited us to their global headquarters in Ingolstodt, Germany, outside of Munich, to see the debut of the next generation car in their just-opened …

G-RO’s New Companion Bags: Backpacks, Office and Check-In Bags

The most successful crowdfunded luggage campaign ever returns to Kickstarter with four new products

With four new companion bags, G-RO hopes to tackle additional traveler needs—this time addressing the backpack and day-to-day office trips. For the first time since their (bag-related) record breaking Kickstarter campaign in 2015, the brand returns with a new G-RO campaign to fund it all. Through countless generations of designs they’ve developed these products, but the materials compel just as much. Three of the four …