WantedDesign 2012 Highlights

Five standout designs from the event's breakthrough sophomore exhibition

After a well received debut last year, WantedDesign is back again at NYC’s Design Week with an even more impactful exhibition showcasing both new and known international designers and architects. This was the break-out year for WantedDesign for its fine curation and product presentation, and while it was a strong show overall, here are five outstanding pieces of innovative and inspiring design. Live Screen Using …

SCALE at Noho Design District

A Cool Hunting, Architizer and Dwell collaboration celebrating the newest in architectural design

For this year’s Noho Design District, part of New York’s Design Week, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Architizer and Dwell to present SCALE, a collection of objects and prototypes that explore the relationship of furniture and architecture. Architects have been known to use furniture as a prototyping method for their creations and with this as our starting point we’ve collected works from architects …

Space Program: Mars

Blast off with Tom Sachs' impressively detailed NASA-inspired mission

Most artists are obsessed—their fixation serving as a driving force for creative action—but Tom Sachs takes his to new heights with his interest in space exploration. His newly launched NYC exhibition, “Space Program: Mars“, is a love letter to NASA in his signature bricolage style, and not one detail of the mission’s extensive flight plan has been spared the Tom Sachs treatment. From a golf …