Austin Beerworks

Texas' design-minded craft brewery

When considering the average beer can design, images of wide mouth tops, color-changing graphics and loud patriotic motifs come to mind. As an exception to the in-your-face branding that saturates big beer, Texas-based Austin Beerworks is as focused on design as they are with creating award-winning craft beer. Launched in June 2012, the young brewery worked closely with Helm Workshop to establish a sharp, pleasant …

Made in Japan

100 new design products

American architect Naomi Pollock curates a selection of 100 products that embody contemporary Japanese object design in her new book, “Made in Japan.” Her selections show what adherents of the Japanese aesthetic have known for some time—that a spoon is never just a spoon, a chair much more than just a place to sit. Introducing the book, she explains that the phrase “made in Japan” …

Concrete

The material's many forms explored in a beautiful monograph from Phaidon

From the Pantheon to the Hoover Dam, concrete has literally shaped the civilized world as we know it. Although once referred to as “the cheapest (and ugliest) thing in the building world” by Frank Lloyd Wright, concrete’s adaptive properties have propelled it to the forefront of many design movements from brutalism to modernism, being used in some of the most monumental structures the modern world …