Through centering Black culture, Kamal Bell is reconceiving food systems, inspiring Black youth to farm, and shepherding the future of food justice.
We believe design has the power to change the world. With Kazam! we share stories about people, projects, and ideas that are shaping a better tomorrow.
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Artist as Art Form
In work that segues from gorgeous fields of color to everyday inanities, Daniel Eatock defies categories, proving he has one muse: the process itself.
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Everyday Evolution
To stop the human and ecological destruction caused by linear design, environmental educator and activist Sage Lenier advocates for more intersectionality, circularity, and learning new skills.
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Design Q&A: Max Lamb
By connecting art and anthropology to materiality and improvisation, furniture designer Max Lamb creates work that embodies new histories of craft.
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Elemental Alchemy
Working in tandem with seasonal cycles, artist Natalie Stopka creates pigments and dyes from plants, then captures nature’s dynamism in her art.
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Screen Play
Leslie Diuguid’s fine-art prints are redefining the genre through a homegrown operation that gives artists—and herself—a greater voice.
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Windows Installation
For NYCxDESIGN, the Eames Institute lands in New York City with a street-facing design exhibit at Herman Miller’s Park Avenue flagship.
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Design Q&A: Emily Pilloton-Lam
At Girls Garage, Emily Pilloton-Lam guides girls and gender-expansive youth to design interventions for social and personal good.
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Everything Connects
Decades in the making, the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity offers a new window into the storied designers’ legacy.
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Breaking the Mold
We trace the story of Ray and Charles Eames’s partnership and problem-solving back to an almost magical handmade plywood-molding device called “Kazam!”
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