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A Danish Lighting Brand Just Reissued Its Most Controversial Chair

Pulled from production after a single season in 1971, the cantilevered chair is back with a new base and the same argument about comfort.

By Sana Kovač

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The Concrete Church Reclaimed as a Climbing Gym

The nave now holds forty routes, and the congregation still meets on Sunday mornings before the walls open.

By Rena Osei


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Why This Airline's New Logo Took Four Years

Arclight Studio walks through the internal politics, three scrapped directions, and the one executive who almost killed the project entirely before it shipped.

By Sana Kovač


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Inside the Studio That Turned Down Its Biggest Client

Fen & Marble on why they walked away from a seven-figure retainer, what they took on instead, and whether they'd make the same call again.

By Tomas Adeyemi


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What Actually Happens in the First Client Meeting

Five studio founders on the questions they ask before ever opening a laptop, and the one red flag that makes them walk away from a project entirely.

By Tom James


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The Archive That Became an Exhibition by Accident

A museum digitized its storage records for insurance purposes. The results were too good not to show, so they built a wing around them instead.

By Priya Nakamura


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A Facade That Changes Color With the Weather

A thermochromic coating shifts the building's exterior tone by several degrees depending on humidity and heat, turning the whole structure into a slow-moving instrument.

By Rena Osei


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One Typeface, Six Rebrands: Inside a Foundry's Busiest Year

How a single custom sans became the quiet backbone of half the rebrands you saw this year, without a single client realizing they were sharing a typeface.

By Tomas Adeyemi


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The Chair Every Design School Still Teaches

Forty years on, it's still the first thing students are asked to take apart and rebuild, and most of them still get the joinery wrong the first time.

By Alex Suskind


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Why More Studios Are Charging for the Pitch Itself

Free pitches are becoming rarer as studios push back against unpaid speculative work, and clients are surprisingly willing to pay for it upfront.

By Tom James


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A Gallery With No Walls, Only Light

An exhibition built entirely from projection, shadow, and negative space — no physical works on display, and no two visitors see quite the same show.

By Priya Nakamura

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