TECHNOLOGY Are Vehicle Touchscreens Moving Too Fast? Mercedes-Benz and BMW are teasing futuristic touchscreens that span the entire width of a...
Technology Apple is Dominating Contactless Payment—For Now Eight long years of patience is paying off for Apple, which is seeing adoption of Apple Pay...
TECHNOLOGY The Webb Telescope Begins Unfolding the Universe After launching on Christmas Day, the highly intricate James Webb Space Telescope’s initial...
TECHNOLOGY One of New York’s Last Public Payphones Finds a Symbolic Home After being dismantled from its perch on a busy intersection in Midtown, the city’s final...
TECHNOLOGY The Most Innovative Debuts at CES Though the Omicron variant cast a shadow over this year’s edition, CES still offered up a bevy of
Currently Coveting Sudio’s T2 Earbuds Effortlessly Cancel Out Clamor The Swedish brand enhanced their much-loved Tolv buds with active noise cancellation technology,...
Business of Design Lab-Grown Meat is Coming to a Plate Near You Investment in cell-cultured meat products ballooned to $3.2 billion in 2020. Thanks to a group of...
Next Frontier An Art Exhibition That Questions What It Means to Be Human “Uncanny Valley,” on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, examines how artificial...
SURFACING A Japanese Design Studio Threads the Line Between Human and Nature Takt Project’s lighting fixtures melt and grow like icicles.
The Boundaries Issue Google’s Ivy Ross Wants You to Simply Be Ivy Ross, vice president of hardware design and user experience at Google, has embarked on a...
Travel Take a Look at The Best New Luggage of The Year Highlights from the latest crop of releases include a duffle designed by Marc Newson, a...
Travel The 10 Best Travel Products of The Year The standout offerings from 2019 include sunglasses with earphones, a self-cleaning bottle, and...
Design This Is What Happens When Google Creates a Schoolhouse The tech giant's Grow With Google education center in New York City mixes retro analog styling with
Surface Shops The 8 Best Looking Outdoor Bluetooth Speakers Eight handsome box-, cone-, and disk-shaped, Bluetooth-enabled speakers that bring sound and style...
By The Numbers 14 Very Loud Facts for The Sony Walkman’s 40th Birthday A collection of historic numbers for the world-changing product's ruby jubilee.
Design Six Jony Ive Apple Creations That Helped Define The Modern World From the iMac to Apple's retail presence, Ives oversaw an era of innovation and influence rarely...
The Find Lenny Kravitz Brings His Rockstar Aesthetic to Leica with a Vegan Python-Skin Design The prolific musician continues to take the camera brand into new territory.
Sound Virgil Abloh’s New See-Through Pioneer DJ Equipment Is Lit The designer's collaboration with the audio tech brand is a sight to behold.
Transport This Motorcycle Helmet Will Make You Look Like Daft Punk (and Maybe Save Your Life) The Sotera helmet by Joe Doucet features a brake light and sleek styling.
SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE This Tech-Forward Jacket Is Climate Control for Your Body The Mercury Heated Jacket knows your ideal body temperature better than you do.
Partnership Studio Visit: Joe Doucet The designer applies his strategic thinking to Montblanc's #MY4810 collection.
Surface x MoMA Design Store What a French Gadget Looks Like A new tech product line at MoMA Design Store spotlights Made in France objects you didn’t...
TECHNOLOGY Tony Fadell Wants to Disrupt Silicon Valley With his firm Future Shape, the creator of the iPod and the iPhone seeks to dethrone tech’s...
Wordplay Airline Bookings Will Soon Be Like Airbnb and Uber Surface Media’s CEO on the future of air travel.
Design Designer of the Day: Alireza Razavi The architect discusses creating design value, the key moment in a project, and why he collects art
The List Geek Out: Five Objects That Fuse Tech and Design These five slick objects ingeniously fuse tech and design.
Design These Design Objects Were Made for Tech-Savvy Women Olivia Lee's latest collection facilitates the way women use technology at home.
BOOKS Reading List: Words for Nerds Should we embrace the chaos of technology? Is it ultimately harmful? And can our trash save us? Get
Design Everyone Is a Californian Now A London Design Museum exhibition makes the case that the innovations of the Golden State are a...
Design How Sony’s New Television Replicates the Real World The model, part of the Z series, combines the latest advancements in high-resolution and color...
essay New York City’s Latest Transplants: Public Wi-Fi Kiosks Intersection has set out to replace pay phones with Internet hotspots, but are they losing sight of
Design Virtual Reality is Coming Faster than You Think We're on the edge of VR breaking into the mainstream in a serious way, and everyone from game...
art Making the Art Museum of the Future Leaders at three standout New York institutions are embracing digital media and new technologies to
Critic A.I. Might Be Man’s New Best Friend Author Elliott Holt asks: In the age of technology, can artificial intelligence cure human...
Design Tactical Maneuver With its edgy Avista concept car, Buick hopes to garner the attention of the millennial generation.
Design Google Gets Crafty The OnHub Makers Series turns the boring wireless router into a functional piece of art.
SURFACE 7 Remedy Place Makes a Sleek Entry in SoHo Plus, an Angeleno twist on Riviera maximalism, a bold observation tower that also functions as a...
DESIGN DISPATCH Netflix Releases an Unflinching Martha Stewart Documentary, and Other News Plus, tensions rise over architecture competitions, and endangered bees stymie Mark Zuckerberg's...
DESIGN DISPATCH Apple Eyes the Smart Glasses Market, and Other News Plus, an Olafur Eliasson installation lands in cities around the world, and LVMH prepares for watch
ART In For Freedoms’ New Monograph, Rujeko Hockley Asks: When I Call, Who Listens? In an essay excerpted from the artist-run coalition's newly released book, the curator Rujeko...
CULTURE CLUB Twenty Years of Performa Reverberates Through WSA On Nov. 1, the performance art biennial founded by Roselee Goldberg celebrated its 20th anniversary