Stories | Eames Institute

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.

Brightly colored illustration featuring plants and flowers depicts climate activist and educator Sage Lenier’s thoughts on intersectional and circular design.

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.

Furniture designer Max Lamb with a model of his 6X8 chair

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.

Abstract artist Natalie Stopka creates pigments and dyes primarily from plants that she grows. In this image, she holds a bag filled with various dried plants and yellow blooms.

Screen Play

Leslie Diuguid’s fine-art prints are redefining the genre through a homegrown operation that gives artists⁠—and herself⁠—a greater voice.

Leslie Diuguid, founder of Du-Good Press in Brooklyn, maker of fine-art prints.

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.

Herman Miller window display featuring Eames molded plywood designs, including an original 1942 leg splint, and an ash dining chair.

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.

Emily Pilloton-Lam, founder and executive director of Girls Garage, a design/build workshop in Berkeley California.

Everything Connects

Decades in the making, the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity offers a new window into the storied designers’ legacy.

Exterior view of the Eames Ranch where the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity is located amidst a sea of rolling hills in Sonoma County, California.

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!”

Illustration of the Kazam! machine designed by Ray and Charles Eames.

Crafting Community

Ishinomaki Lab helped rebuild a city in Japan after the 2011 tsunami. Now, a partnership with a Michigan makerspace again demonstrates the power of design.

At Brightmoor Maker Space, a young woman stands in the workshop holding a handmade Ishinomaki wooden stool, Kazam! Magazine.

What’s an Institute for Anyway?

John Cary, president and CEO of the Eames Institute, offers a vision of why we do what we do.

John Cary, president and CEO of the Eames Institute, sitting in an Eames chair at the Eames Ranch.

Design Q&A: Caitlin Taylor

In our inaugural Design Q&A⁠—a format borrowed from the Eameses’ iconic 1970 film⁠—MASS Design Group’s architect Caitlin Taylor finds fertile ground for the future.

MASS Design Group's Caitlin Taylor tending to pink flowers at Four Root Farm in East Haddam, Connecticut.

Knowledge Frozen in Stone

Concrete relief murals by artist Gurdon Woods at our future museum site invite reflection on symbolic language and the rhythms of human understanding.

Angled view of a concrete relief mural by artist Gurdon Woods with trees in the background.

Llisa Draws a Letter

Llisa Demetrios goes behind the scenes to recount how her childhood memories of Ray and Charles come full circle in her new role as chief curator.