Hasta La Ideas

Our latest reason to love the internet: Herman Miller’s push to make the design process behind their new SAYL chair completely transparent. If you were a design geek from twenty years ago, you’d have to hunt through a small handful of magazines to glean sparse notes about the design process behind any given object; but HM’s new Live Unframed website presents you with scans of Yves Behar’s sketchbook, explanations of the design process, copious photographs of copious prototypes, and inside-Herman-Miller’s-walls videos like the one below.

Live Unframed is going live in three stages, and though only the first stage is currently live, there’s already tons of content. Check it out, and tune back in on November 8th and 15th as HM will be uploading even more.

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