Finally: Design Within Reach

This summer, the United States Post Office will issue a series of Charles and Ray Eames stamps.

"...will be able to hold in your sweaty little design-whoring hands a number of two-dimensional Charles and Ray Eames..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Design Post by Cindy Widner

What We Talk About When We Talk About Austin Design

Modern+Design+Function 2008 attendees freestyle on the meaning of "Austin design."

"...But in case you didn't know: Design Within Reach has been sponsoring some damn cool, totally..."

May 14, 2008 Design Post by Cindy Widner

Poking Holes in Perfection

"...I learned at Monday night’s free hand-embroidery class at Design Within Reach. As Rachel Hobson of AverageJaneCrafter showed us..."

Feb. 7, 2008 Design Post by Nora Ankrum

Lighting That's Class-y (This Is Not About Dreamgirls)

"...gentlemen, I present to you the Arco floor lamp, designed by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in 1962, manufactured..."

Oct. 30, 2007 Design Post by Andy Campbell

The Floating Chair

'The Floating Chair,' an exhibit at Design Within Reach, shows how the area's finest industrial designers bring so much to the table

"...it is throughout "The Floating Chair," an exhibit at Design Within Reach featuring the area's finest industrial designers...."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Pecha Kucha

Watching local artists, designers, and filmmakers show 20 slides for 20 seconds each can be either illuminating or excruciating

"...balmy Wednesday evening for Pecha Kucha, where local architects, designers, painters, and filmmakers are handed a slide projector and..."

June 6, 2008 Arts Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

After a Fashion

Where and with whom did Stephen sally forth this Fourth of July? And what else happened in town on this party weekend.

"...fearless and fabulous new downtown boutique, Lucky Soles (stylishly designed by David James Crawley) on Colorado. Design Within Reach,..."

July 8, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

After a Fashion

Ooooh, Oprah! Grrrrl, those sales clerks locked you out? And that model did what to Cameron? And Leo DiCap got hit where? What is this world coming to?

"...a block party tonight, 6-9pm celebrating the openings of Design Within Reach (200 W. Second), Shiki (225 W. Second),..."

July 1, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Get Visionary With Me Here

We are no longer pioneers of the digital age. We're miners.

"...the "Visionary in Residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. Basically, I've become a designer futurist...."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

Sold on the Cool

The Blanton's 'Birth of the Cool' is midcentury modernism made sexy

"...Art to advertise "Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury" – and I don't use..."

March 13, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

After a Fashion

While the Style Avatar is away, the Avatarette shall play

"...on West Second is quickly becoming more about home design and less about pricey chemises in miniature sizes. Elbowing..."

May 1, 2009 Column by Anne Harris

Ligne Roset Opens on West Second

Ligne Roset store opening

"...West Second Street is quickly becoming more about home design and less about pricey chemises in miniature sizes. Elbowing..."

April 19, 2009 Design Post by Anne Harris

Stitch Lab Grand Opening Redux

A little bit of the grand opening, a little bit of the history

"...Samples. Stitch Lab also co-sponsored an embroidery event at Design Within Reach last year ("Poking Holes in Perfection," Feb...."

Dec. 23, 2009 Design Post by Lei-Leen Choo

Learning About Cuba, Having Some Vodka

"...thought I'd write: Last night I found myself at Design Within Reach, learning about the four tenets of hip-hop..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Design Post by Cindy Widner

Res Publica

Your good citizen guide for Nov. 13-20

"...'em a little dough while you're at it. 5:30-8pm. Design Within Reach, 200 W. Second. $10-100. www.austincarshare.org...."

Nov. 14, 2008 News Feature

The Peached Tortilla

New Americana at the Peached Tortilla

"...apparent in the cozy dining room. Glossy benches and Design Within Reach Salt Chairs express a sort of Southern..."

March 6, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Life's Enriched Pageant

Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.

"...Centered within two columns of text, because it's an article about..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Designing a Smarter City

New weeklong event celebrates city's creative community

"...What is design? Is it a process? An art? A way of..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Brass Ring Lessons

How TexARTS' first two go-rounds in staging classic musicals are helping to make its new Carousel ride a winner

"...pony passed by, you really had to stretch to reach it, a move complicated somewhat by the bobbing motion..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Homes Tour: The Art of the Craftsman Style

John Ruskin's ghost will be nearby, eating breakfast tacos and smiling

"...tells me, is a style of American architecture, interior design, landscape design, and applied and decorative arts that began..."

April 24, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

AISD’s Therapy Provider Struggles to Meet Demand Amid Mental Health Crisis

Students and parents find help is out of reach

"..."Part of the concern relates to how the organizational design of the referral/intake process has changed, and part of..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...San Jacinto -- are misspelled in the new airport design, as Sabinf, Neueces, and San Jancinto. Those typos, Seibert..."

May 7, 1999 News Feature

Sex, Lies, and Katie Folger

The Austin artist on her new show, Getting in Bed With the Pizza Man

"...& Cher Show, Soul Train. To me, the set design in those decades were just so much more compelling,..."

May 11, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Council Watch

City and developer Gary Bradley reach agreeement on development

"...And there is still ambivalence about the mitigation concept within the environmental community. Some still oppose "go forward" mitigation..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Plug In, Turn On, Drive Off

When do we get to share electric cars?

"...electric era for two decades – having been originally designed to "convert to electric without an entire redesign. The..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Feature by Kate X Messer

Capturing the Dragon

Two Dem Challengers contend for CD 10

"...The district's design was so clever – and so devastatingly Republican –..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Austin Studios Takes Flight

The past year has been witness to an amazingly cooperative tag-team project between the Austin Film Society, the Austin City Council, and the Mueller Neighborhood Coalition that -- as of now -- has resulted in a superstar studio setup that could well change the very fabric of filmmaking in Austin.

"...myriad filmmaking possibilities flung wide and suddenly, almost magically within reach. It's like waking up on sleepy Sunday morning..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Stage Top 10s

Top Ten That's Really 13 (and Could Easily Have Been 20) Theatre Experiences of 1996

"...with a rare and glorious passion, it lifted us within reach of heaven. Through these shows, I finally felt..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...housing for students close to the university. This development within our borders is consistent with all the neighborhood planning..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...their path as they navigated the grim depths of designing a zoning code and map that prioritizes "all types..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

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