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...
SURFACE 7 Pleats Please Issey Miyake Opens in Tadao Ando’s First New York City Building Plus, Vipp’s Danish modernism reverberates in Todos Santos, Le Labo’s latest transportive home...
DESIGN DISPATCH Robert Smith’s Spiral Jetty Joins the National Register of Historic Places, and Other News Plus, Calvin Klein returns to New York Fashion Week, and the fashion and photography worlds mourn...
DESIGN DISPATCH AIA Appoints Evelyn Lee as its 2025 President, and Other News Plus, Prada Group renews its partnership with Essilor Luxottica, and an early Jean-Michel Basquiat...
DESIGN Saint Laurent’s Newest Store Channels Anthony Vaccarello’s Sleek Vision The Belgian creative director sets a breathtaking standard for the French fashion house's largest...