Herman Miller + Industrial Facility’s Formwork Stackable System

The brilliant Industrial Facility partners with the furniture magnate for a modular set of desk accessories

Of the numerous intuitive designs shown at Industrial Facility‘s Shoreditch pop-up during the 2013 London Design Festival, the prototypes for Formwork—multipurpose desk accessories—stood out for their novel appeal. Renowned Industrial Facility designers Sam Hecht and Kim Colin created the range of organizers from durable, ABS plastic with a non-slip Silicone base, allowing each form to fall into place with other matching pieces (among them cups, …

Inside Airtight Cycles’ Brooklyn Studio

We speak with Mathew Amonson about building beautiful Möbius-style bikes by hand

Just over two years ago, Mathew Amonson began toying with the idea of building himself a custom bicycle. Research turned to experimentation, which then led the Brooklyn-based enthusiast to travel to Colorado to study under legendary bicycle builder Koichi Yamaguchi. There, Amonson learned the traditional frame-building techniques that he now employs under his own newly established label, Airtight Cycles. Working with steel, bronze and silver …

LELO Celebrates Sexuality in Design

The brand encourages togetherness, enjoyment and experimentation with their UnDesign Awards

For 11 years now, Swedish design brand LELO has envisioned and created toys for pleasure that take into account sexual stimulation as much as exquisite design sensibilities. Their products are objects of which to be proud—not shy about—and the ultimate reward is fulfillment. Noticing a shift toward isolation and loss of connectivity (primarily related to our collective inability to separate ourselves from our mobile phones), …