New Design Milk Job Board Listings from Wilson Associates, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, and Madera

There are still a lot of great job opportunities on the Design Milk Job Board – and some new ones to check out!

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Design and Project Director – Madera – Full Time – Brooklyn, New York

NYC – Business Development Coordinator BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group – Full Time – Dumbo (Brooklyn)

fuseproject is looking for the following positions in San Francisco:
Senior XD Visual Designer
UX & Experience Design Lead
XD Visual Design Lead

Furniture Design and Development Director – Article – Full Time – Vancouver, BC

Huntsman Architectural Group is looking for:
Senior Interior Designer – New York
Senior Project Architect – Chicago
Project Architect – San Francisco
Job Captain – San Francisco
Interior Designer – San Francisco

Business Development Support – stellarworks – Internship – New York

Ann Sacks is seeking a Design Sales Advisor in New York and San Francisco

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The Shack: A Modern Hideaway for a San Francisco Couple by Feldman Architecture

A busy couple from San Francisco were looking for a place to retreat to when they wanted to get out of the city which led them to The Shack. The small, dark cottage in Marin County, California, originally came with low ceilings and a closed off floor plan that didn’t work for the homeowners. To rectify the situation, they hired Feldman Architecture to create a modern hideaway with views of the surrounding mountains.

The architects blended original character with modern elements to create the perfect spot to spend weekends and holidays. Outside, various levels were created for eating, relaxation, and swimming in the new pool.

A two-story addition was built to enlarge the living room while adding a master bedroom suite upstairs with framed views of Mount Baldy.

In addition to the new swimming pool, a detached garage was built and it features a green roof.

The interior was opened up and it revealed original Douglas Fir on the sloped ceilings. That inspired them to seek out reclaimed local wood for the floors, mantel, and interior doors.

The fireplace made of Sonoma stone was preserved from the original house, as was the redwood siding on the exterior.

Photos by Phil Bond.

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The Herman Miller Cosm Tilts Itself Into the Best Position Possible

Herman Miller tapped Berlin-based designers Carola Zwick, Roland Zwick, and Burkhard Schmitz at Studio 7.5 to deliver something often advertised, but rarely delivered: a task chair engineered to offer self-adjusting comfort bespoke to the user’s height, weight, and position. After 8 years of research and development, the studio developed the Auto-Harmonic Tilt system as the foundation of the new Herman Miller Cosm chair, a self-adapting work seat that takes the guesswork out of finding the most comfortable – and healthy – position to work from.

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The 113 year old company unveiled the Cosm at this year’s Salone del Mobile 2018 as an example of next generation seating designed to automatically adjust to not only the endless varieties of seating positions people work from, but also in acknowledgment that many work environments now use chairs communally. When your chair may become another’s seating the next hour, and vice versa, the issue of ergonomic comfort can be an issue. The Studio 7.5 team simplified the interaction between user and chair by eliminating physical controls, developing the Auto-Harmonic Tilt to instantly provides balanced support and movement corresponding to the user’s body, posture, and seated position.

The parallels between seating and athletic footwear are numerous: individual comfort is highly dependent upon body shape and weight, posture plays a significant part in matching the best chair/shoe with user, and preferences for more padding vs. lightweight/airy construction is a subjective matter. And like a footwear brand, Herman Miller perpetually innovates by researching various materials and technologies to deliver ever finer and self adjusting features in service of comfort. With the Cosm the interplay between material and technology is manifested using gears within the tilt that in turn move the fulcrum along a leaf spring to automatically adjust the chair’s tension.

The Cosm’s Leaf Arms are also a notable and new design: “The elbow is a very delicate part of our anatomy; it wants to be placed in a very soft but firm spot. Cosm’s Leaf Arms follow the overall functional and aesthetic intent of the chair by providing a simple and super slim visual appearance with superior comfort.” – Burkhard Schmitz/Studio 7.5

Whether this new seating system proves to be truly universally adaptable to the endless ways people sit can only be verified by (longterm) use, noting our personal preference for padded backs and arms usually dictates more significant sized task chairs. We’ll be able to find out this summer, when the Cosm becomes publicly available for both home and commercial markets.

The Cosm is available in top to bottom, single hue “dipped-in-color” options: Canyon, Glacier, and Nightfall. More traditional options in the form of White, Graphite, and Carbon are also available.

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Desktop Wallpaper: June 2018

This month’s Designer Desktop features a long-time favorite designer and artist of ours, Rebecca Atwood. Based in Brooklyn, she designs wallpaper and textile products under her brand Rebecca Atwood Designs that effortlessly mix in with the items you already have in your own home. If you hop over to her blog, she shares a series called The Art of Making that gives a behind-the-scenes look into the making of different elements of her designs, from embroidery to screen printing to hand-dyeing. It’s what inspired the quote in this month’s free download.

We love this Mixed Stripes pattern and have already downloaded it on all our devices. You can too with the links below!

DESKTOP: 1024×768 \\\ 1280×1024 \\\ 1680×1050 \\\
1900×1200 \\\ 2560×1440

MOBILE: iPhone 6/7/8 \\\ iPhone 6/7/8 Plus \\\ iPad

See more designs from Rebecca Atwood here.

View and download past Designer Desktops here.

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Friday Five with Jacob Marks

If you’ve been a reader of Design Milk for any length of time, chances are you’re familiar with Skram Furniture, the North Carolina-based furniture design studio that was founded by Jacob Marks (which spells ‘skram’ backwards) in 2001 after graduating from Colorado College. Despite having no formal training in design, Marks successfully launched the brand at the young age of 25 and has gone on to be named one of the top 50 young designers of the Americas. He embraces sustainability while keenly focusing on handcrafted design and an impeccable attention to detail that’s easily spotted in each piece. The work is timeless with a scaled back approach that comes together through the use of natural materials, like wood, metal, stone, and leather. So, if you’re not familiar, you should dive into the archives and then read on see what inspirations he shared in his Friday Five.

Courtesy of Hiroshi Sugimoto

1. Hiroshi Sugimoto Seascapes
I’m captivated by Sugimoto’s work, particularly his Seascapes. This is one of the most stunning bodies of work I’ve encountered in any medium.

Henry Charles Carey and Isaac Lea, 1822

2. Maps
This is an 1822 map of Indiana, where I grew up. I collect and display maps at home and they have been a fascination of mine for as long as I can remember. Aside from the graphic quality, maps like this one have such amazing stories to tell about places in time and the impermanence of everything. Also, I love maps made at a moment when the mapmaker knew there was more to be understood, but had no clear idea of its characteristics. So much possibility!

3. Gdansk, Poland
We traveled to the Baltic Sea port city of Gdansk last winter and were stunned by its beauty, culture, and history. While there, check out the gigantic cranes in the shipyard and the nearby Solidarity Museum for a sobering but inspiring (and timely) reminder that the path towards justice and away from repression requires courage and persistence.

4. Field Museum Bird Collection
The Field Museum in Chicago has one on the most extensive collections of birds in the world – around 530,000 individual specimens are carefully preserved in support of research and conservation. My brother, Ben, manages this collection and no trip to Chicago is complete without a visit to the museum.

5. Southeastern Tidal Estuaries
I’ve always been more interested in mountains than sea. But recently I began to explore the estuarine landscapes that make up much of North Carolina’s coast. These spaces are magical and delicate, and wonderful to explore.

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