Anima terra at the new art institute of chicago

With the opening of the new modern wing at the Chicago Art Institute, we are presenting the commissioned ‘Anima Terra’, a sculptural landscape internally illuminated by LEDs.

Technocraft: the road to mass-individualization

Bored with mass-production? Scared of cultural globalization? Emotionally disconnected from your consumption? Designers around the world are using technology to fight back and create a new economy based on craft,

The art in your pants

For 36 years Creative Growth Art Center’s mission has been to foster artists with developmental disabilities. The exemplary program has given safe harbor to artists and helped build their careers through exhibitions worldwide in galleries and major museums.

Design of the decade x2! wow

When 2 team favorites at the studio win IDSA’s prestigious Design of the Decade, we have to share the news. Jawbone, our venture partner whose brand we built over the last 6 years, has impressed everyone by taking the Gold Design of the Decade for Most Successful Integration of New Technology. One Laptop Per Child,

Design for a living world 2

In Costa Rica, the Bribri women of Talamanca are growing organic cacao and making chocolate. Unlike monoculture farming, their cacao plants grow in the natural ecosystem,

Are you up for it?

We created UP to help people know more about themselves and, ultimately, live better. In doing so, we were challenged with creating a true ‘lifestyle’ product – one that was wearable day and night,

Utopian design

The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area is a new exhibition that just opened at the SFMoMA. The One Laptop Per Child program,

One million dollar hult

The one million dollar Hult Prize, presented at the Clinton Global Initiative, rewards the best student social entrepreneurship project. The winner’s award trophy expresses how a singular social-good idea blossoms into millions of lives changed.

Shopping in your undies

With PACT, our partners in everything underwear, we have launched 3 brand new prints for the holidays. As always, these prints are inspired by their charitable cause:

So fresh and so clean

Finally a friend who will help you mop your house. The Mint, a new wet/dry cleaning machine, will clean your floors (not turn them blue!) without you having to do a thing…check out the video above…