TRANSPORT A Tiny Electric Truck With Giant Ambitions Telo is a compact electric truck designed by Yves Béhar that offers ample storage in the footprint
Surface Summer School Yves Behar on the Power of Design’s Reactivity The designer and founder of the San Francisco–based Fuseproject kicks off the Surface Summer...
Surface Summer School Announcing the Speakers for the Surface Summer School Lecture Series Yves Behar, Thom Mayne, Susan Sellers, and Dror Benshetrit are among the names speaking during our...
Design Summer School: Surface to Partner with UPenn to Concept a Mobile Testing Unit for COVID-19 The summer competition will challenge students at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design to help...
Design The Best New Coworking Spaces of 2019 From the Chicago to Brussels, designers have injected new ideas into what is now one of the...
THE UTOPIA ISSUE Florence Knoll Turned Interior Design into a Profession The design industry looks back on Florence Knoll Bassett's accomplishments after passing at the age
Partnership Surface x Leica Photo Studio at Summit L.A. 2018 We teamed up with photographer Mark Mann to document the thinkers, artists, activists, and...
DESIGN Incarnated as a Food Item, Yves Béhar Would Be “The Future Hamburger” The final video in our Diner Dialogues series, which zeroes in on diners and American design, we...
DESIGN Google’s Ivy Ross Thinks American Design Is “All Over the Place” For the first in our Diner Dialogues video series, a collection of shorts focused on diners and...
Culture Club “What’s So Great About The Diner?” On the eve of Milan Design Week, opening night at The Diner was all about people, food, and fun.
BEHIND THE SCENES A Zen Moment With Yves Béhar The Swiss designer explains the remarkably therapeutic process that takes place when he sits down...
Design Yves Béhar’s Fleet of Security Robots With his firm, Fuseproject, the designer gives a friendly face to the all-seeing eye.
Design Predicting the Future at A/D/O At Brooklyn’s A/D/O, a recent conference focused on utopian (and dystopian) design.
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...
Events Design Dialogues No. 30 Just before Miami Art Week kicked into high gear, Surface’s editor-in-chief Spencer Bailey sat...
DESIGN DISPATCH Medieval Art and Design Artifacts Were Unearthed Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral, and Other News Plus, Herman Miller takes aim at the problems posed by open office floor plans, and a commemoration
DESIGN DISPATCH Koyo Kouoh will Curate the 61st Venice Biennale, and Other News Plus, Olufar Eliasson's Breathing Earth Sphere lands in South Korea, and Sarah Andelman curates a...
DESIGN DISPATCH An Ernst and Gustav Klimt Painting Sells for $2.8 Million, and Other News Plus, an inside look at how Soho House built its staggering art collection, and a former Skims...
DESIGN DISPATCH Incoming Fair Director Bridgit Finn Opens Art Basel Miami Beach, and Other News Plus, a newly restored Notre Dame Cathedral is unveiled to the public, and gamma radiation is...
RESTAURANT With Clemente Bar, Daniel Humm Sets Out to Fashion the Best Bar in New York Together with Italian contemporary artist Francesco Clemente, the Eleven Madison Park chef expands...