Design

When you rent a place — especially for the first time — you might not feel like you can make...

One of the most important rules of design is that a design is only finished when you can’t take anything...

It’s official: You’re having a baby! You’ve bought the baby books, found your birthing coach, and are already putting together...

The Office is one of those shows that will stand the test of time. It’s hilarious, hardly (if at all)...

Figuring out how to make your tiny New York City apartment pop can be a serious challenge. That’s why sometimes it makes sense to call in a professional. When we were redesigning the MakeSpace office, we hit up our friends at Homepolish, and they sent over the wonderful Mary Davis to transform our space. Check out more pictures of our beautiful new space and an interview with the designer after the jump!

Here In New York City, our friends are always complaining that there’s just nowhere to store a grill. To solve this problem once and for all, we’ve rounded up some awesome, compact barbecues that will fit in even the smallest of homes. Here are our favorites:

If you’ve ever spent time trying to make sense of the assembly instructions for a bed or dresser from Ikea, you’ll be able to appreciate the genius of SOAPBOX‘s line of snap-together tables.

For a full month, we were captivated by the World Cup. Thirty-one days of no-guts, no-glory competition drew us to our TV’s and computers en masse, and we were glued to the matches. But after Germany scored an incredible goal to destroy the hopes of every Argentinian in the world, the fans filed out, and the stadiums were closed up. So, what’s going to happen to them now?

Artist Bernardo Schorr envisions a bleak future of urban density so intense that most city-dwellers will be forced to live in 100 square-foot, windowless apartments. To address the challenges these small, windowless spaces will present, Schorr designed a futuristic solution: The Mixed Reality Living Space

This tiny, foldable micro-apartment on the Upper West Side is on the market for half a million dollars! You think...

How is a 22 year old this good at design? Haley started working full-time as a Senior Designer at NYLON before she even finished undergrad at NYU, and is one of the youngest designers in the magazine’s history. Of course, for someone with as much talent and creative ambition as Haley, her work at NYLON is just the tip of the iceberg; in her spare time, she’s done everything from designing Mira Gonzalez’s poetry collection i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together to collaborating with the studio Actual Idea on Jared Leto’s photobook series Notes from the Outernet.