From the monthly archives:
Recently, interior designer Charise Glasson shared her favorite design maganzines. All over the internet, people have been talking about what changes need to be made to save magazines. What content needs to change? Will advertisers come back to magazines? Will readers? Will they all go online? Even Elle Decor‘s Margaret Russell discussed this in last [...]
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In an effort to highlight as many sources of great design deals as possible (and also to clean up our content stream), the DesignBoston team is going to start listing all sales in one post, starting with this one. Let us know how you like it, and if you’re shop is having a sale that [...]
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Ever since the Puma City display last spring, I’ve been fascinated with using shipping containers for architecture. You can imagine my pleasant surprise, then, when I discovered the Box Office, an office building made of shipping containers 50 miles away, in Providence, RI. Designed by Distill Studio and built by Stack Design-Build, the Box Office [...]
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MONTHLY GIVEAWAY: WIN A FREE CHUMBO KVAD (Used in the upcoming Twilight movie!): 1. Visit inmod’s Facebook Profile, and add them as a friend. (Before Midnight, E.S.T. Thursday, 1/28.) 2. Become their fan on Facebook (optional, but highly recommended!) 3. After your friend request has been confirmed, copy and paste the following into your Facebook status [...]
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New England Home magazine is on a search for the top young designers in New England, and they need your help. New England Home is taking your nominations for the top architects, interior, furniture, or home-product designers under 40 years old. “Selected by an all-star committee of regional design leaders, 5 Under 40 winners are [...]
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Saying 2009 was a tough year for design magazines is quite an understatement. With the loss of Domino, Metropolitan Home, ID and scores of others, last year was the hardest ever on the publishing industry. Like many of you, I’m sure, this hit me pretty hard. I LOVE design magazines. I mean, sure, I love [...]
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Another interesting duo that I met at SHIFTboston are Derek Cascio and Sam Aquillano. They are creating the Design Museum Boston, where they will share all types of design – architecture, furniture, product design, graphic design and more. The approach Derak and Sam are taking for Design Museum Boston isn’t the normal route of raising [...]
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We’d all love to go crazy and buy up all custom furniture and accessories, or have only pieces by the icons. But, there’s the reality that not everyone can afford to go all out. What then? How do you know what to spend the money on, and what to pull back on? Local interior designer [...]
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Believe it or not, throughout Boston, there are small tracts of land sitting, waiting for eager green thumbs to have their gardening way with them. I don’t mean the community gardens you see sprinkled about, like the woefully-place one near my apartment in Charlestown. What I mean are the small patches in your back yard, [...]
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This past Thursday, Boston’s design, government, and business communities came together to discover new ideas for the future of our city. The SHIFTboston Forum was the culmination of a months-long search for ideas of “What if…?” In the end, 141 submissions came in from 47 states and 16 countries – that’s a lot of interest [...]
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