The Best of 2017
A look back at the year’s most-read stories, top new furniture and objects, most exciting fashion
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Surface’s Most Popular Stories of 2017
The 10 articles that captured your attention this year, from our exclusive first look at Kanye...
Please Stop: Menu Minimalism
Chefs, enough with your Brooklyn blackboard haiku. Just describe how your dishes are prepared.
Why the Guggenheim Museum Is a Precarious Music Venue
The multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Andrew Bird on his deep connection to architecture...
Silicon Valley Disrupted Hollywood … by Bringing Back Hollywood
Netflix and its cadre of digital disruptors have reshaped Tinseltown, but the shiny new system may...
Does Meaningful Design Have a Place in the Age of Shitposting?
The internet's culture of nihilistic memes and viral absurdity have become a way to speak not...
Alexandre de Betak Has Mastered the Art of Pesto
The renowned fashion-show designer keeps his many obsessions on heavy rotation—the pasta sauce...
Airline Bookings Will Soon Be Like Airbnb and Uber
Surface Media’s CEO on the future of air travel.
What Does Good Music Smell Like?
New York design studio Yummy Colours imagines 8 albums as fragrances—and predicts the...
A.I. Is About to Erase the World As We Know It
Surface Media’s CEO on the frictionless future.
Please Stop: Carrying Canvas Tote Bags
Our regular look at a design trend that needs to end.
The Death of Retail As We Know It Is Upon Us
Surface Media’s CEO on why brick-and-mortar shops need to dramatically rethink their ways—or...
The Surface Essentials: Gold Slippers, the Ultimate Sofa-Bed, and More
Our must-haves for the week: gold slippers, the ultimate sofa-bed, and more.
Transparency and Faking It
Surface Media’s CEO offers his take on a current buzzword, idea, or trend.
Please Stop: Making Limited Editions
Our regular look at a design trend that needs to end.
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