FASHION Anti-Semitism Scandals Are Costing Adidas and Nike After a string of anti-Semitic remarks led Adidas to sever ties with Kanye West and stop producing...
IN MEMORIAM Remembering Virgil Abloh, an Unstoppable Force in Fashion and Beyond The multihyphenate designer, entrepreneur, and visionary passed away after a battle with cancer....
Fashion Kanye West’s YEEZY Foam Runners Are What Would Happen if Zaha Hadid Designed Crocs A teasing image of the multihypenate star's latest footwear release suggests curves and shapes...
Architecture Kanye West Is Building ‘Star Wars’-Style Houses for the Homeless: Report In an interview with Forbes, the inescapable multihypenate revealed his prototypes for low-income...
The Legacy Issue Mining the Surface Archives: We’ve Got You Covered A deep-dive into Surface’s history reveals 26 years of art, design, and fashion at the bleeding...
THE UTOPIA ISSUE Iddris Sandu is Going to Change the World The 21-year-old has coded for tech's biggest names, collaborated with hip-hop stars, and received...
Design 10 Unforgettable Surface Moments Our outgoing editor-in-chief, Spencer Bailey, fondly recalls some of his most life-changing...
OPINION How We Could Have Predicted Kanye’s ‘Dragon Energy’ Trump Tweet All the clues lie in an interview we conducted with Yeezy right before his "psychiatric emergency"...
Travel Murray Moss Loves Kitschy Souvenirs The cultural arbiter and Surface Travel Awards juror on the power of mementos.
Exclusive Kanye West Releases His Calabasas Collection The much-talked-about line is here—and it comes with a zine.
Best of 2016 The Last Word: Memorable Quotes From 2016 As 2016 draws to a close, we’ve selected a few of the most memorable quotes that ran in...
Letter From Miami Letter From Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 A post-election malaise and concern over the Zika virus didn’t put a damper on this year’s art...
Art Kanye West: Free Form How the musician, fashion designer, and artist plans to make the world a better place.
Design Virgil Abloh Takes Us Into His World The multidisciplinary talent and Kanye West creative director speaks with us about Hip-Hop,...
SURFACE 7 Mozhdeh Matin’s Vision of Coastal Cool Comes Home Plus, Aesop’s chic approach to considered gift-giving, and Bella McGoldrick’s 'Visa Issues,'...
DESIGN DISPATCH Pantone Names Mocha Mousse its 2025 Color of the Year, and Other News Plus, Donald Kohler becomes CEO of PVH Americas, and an Eliot Noyes documentary hits streaming.
DESIGN DISPATCH Dries Van Noten Appoints Julian Klausner as Creative Director, and Other News Plus, a new arts foundation seeks to support museum workers, and Ikea announces a Niels Gammelgaard
DESIGN DISPATCH Nora Lawrence Has Been Appointed Executive Director of Storm King, and Other News Plus, Judy Garland's ruby slippers from 'The Wizard of Oz' set an auction record, and John Galliano
Design Dispatch Rare Louis Poulsen Lighting Goes to Auction at Sotheby’s New York, and Other News Plus, Cristina Grajales gallery stages an exhibition of the late Fernando Bengoechea’s artwork,...