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Georg Hochmuth / Reuters The Pandemic Has Made a Mockery of Minimalism
Smaller, slower, fewer, isolated—the values of virus containment look eerily like modern luxury aesthetics.
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Jonathan Dorado / Brooklyn Museum How Pierre Cardin’s Futuristic Fashion Infiltrated Everyday Life
The space-obsessed French couturier has pushed his avant-garde designs, with tremendous success, into houses and closets around the globe.
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Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP Helen Marten’s Intricate Sculptures Win the Turner Prize
The 31-year-old artist’s installations create order from the detritus of modern life.
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Lauren Garfinkel Donald Trump, Circus Peanut
The artist Lauren Garfinkel has come up with a zesty solution to campaign fatigue: depicting the players of 2016 in foodstuffs.
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John Gress / Corbis / Getty The Architects Who Will Design the Obama Library
A pair of American firms will lead the project on a site to be chosen on the south side of Chicago.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Will Toys Ever Go Beyond Blue and Pink?
Products marketed to children are more divided by gender stereotypes than ever, but the Internet is increasingly offering alternatives to Hot Wheels and Barbies.
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Andrew Innerarity / Reuters Remembering Zaha Hadid
For better and for worse, she was the world’s first female starchitect.
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Manuja Waldia / Penguin Shakespeare’s 21st-Century Makeover
The new designs for the book covers of the Bard's plays have a minimalist, modern ethos.
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Jason Lee / Reuters The End of China’s ‘Weird’ Architecture
The government is cutting down on the country’s more bizarre buildings, which for years aimed to flaunt its wealth and cosmopolitan tastes.
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Sesame Workshop Anthropologie Is Selling a Rusty Trash Can for $100
We have officially reached Peak Shabby Chic.
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DBOX / Eric Parry Architects London’s Surprisingly Graceful New Skyscraper, Revealed
The upcoming 1 Undershaft tower won’t look like the Gherkin, the Cheesegrater, or the Walkie-Talkie buildings. In fact, it’s kind of modest.
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Jay Paul / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Highbrow Ink
Tattoos are seeing growing acceptance in the fine-art world, but the once-subversive 1,000-year-old art form doesn’t fit in so neatly.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Thanksgiving at the White House: The Menu Changes More Than the Silverware
On the president's holiday table, tradition and politics intersect with culture and design.
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Pentagram The Art of Pot Packaging
Leafs by Snoop is using design to make marijuana appeal to upscale consumers.
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Eames Office The Vision of Charles and Ray Eames
How two designers from the 20th century influenced and predicted the way people would live in the 21st
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Pantone How Pantone Became a Global Authority on Color
The company’s chips are international shorthand for the importance of color in our lives.
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Pentagram Designing the Doomsday Clock
The simple, brutal image captures scientists’ level of anxiety about technologies that could destroy humanity.
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Gustau Nacarino / Reuters Gaudí’s Basilica: Almost Finished After 132 Years
132 years later, Barcelona’s fantastical Sagrada Família is approaching the last stage of its construction.
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Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum The First Book of Selfies
A 16th-century German accountant compiled a book of personal fashion that rivals today’s Instagrammers in detail and dedication.
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Gran Fury Can Posters Still Change the World?
For centuries, printed and mass-produced signs have helped activists spread the message of everything from AIDS awareness to the plight of Syrian refugees.
