Diana Budds

New York

Writer and Editor at Freelance

writer covering design, urbanism, and culture. | recent work in @fastcodesign @archpaper @wallpapermag | 📥 [email protected] | 🇵🇭 + 🇲🇹

Articles

In Good Company: How Agencies Are Transforming Client Collaboration

4 days ago | figma.com | Diana Budds |Jenny Xie

The landscape of design agencies and freelance work has seen dramatic shifts in the past two decades. Not only has remote work created more dispersed teams, but boutique agencies have risen to challenge the behemoths that once dominated the space. Gone is the attitude that design is an opaque process; instead, agencies and clients stay in close collaboration, co-creating a bespoke workflow for each project. Within agencies, roles are blurring as well.
Estas sillas rosa fosforescente son símbolo de las protestas en LA

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.mx | Diana Budds

Desde el viernes, las protestas por las redadas migratorias estallaron en todo Los Ángeles. Las manifestaciones escalaron después de que el presidente Trump desplegara a la Guardia Nacional en la ciudad el sábado. Las tropas utilizaron tácticas agresivas para dispersar a los manifestantes, como disparos de balas de goma, granadas aturdidoras y gas lacrimógeno. Las imágenes que surgieron durante el fin de semana son inquietantes.
Why curtains are the year's biggest – and most unexpected – interior design trend

3 weeks ago | wallpaper.com | Diana Budds

Arriving at the Ra Ra Room, a members-only supper club in Phoenix, Arizona, is a bit like a treasure hunt. Guests enter through a back door of a sports arena and walk past the loading dock before trekking down a long corridor until reaching a martini glass–shaped neon sign. After opening a heavy red door, they enter a space dripping in art deco opulence – cascading glass chandeliers, a champagne-hued ceiling, plush leopard-print banquettes and walls covered in lustrous draperies.
Design discourse has moved from the page onto the phone screen

1 month ago | archpaper.com | Diana Budds |Kristine Klein

If your algorithms are anything like mine, there’s a lot of architecture and design served up no matter if I’m scrolling through TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube. One second I’m touring John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein House, the next I’m watching a deep dive into the psychology of reality TV homes, and then I’m seeing a roast of sofas that scream Instagram trend victim.
A New York Design Week show spotlights the Black women artists

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Diana Budds

A small gallery at the Standard East Village has been transformed into what feels like a very stylish – and personal– living room for ‘Innerwoven,’ an exhibition of Black women artists held in conjunction with New York’s design week. All of the items in the space – including carved wood chairs by Nifemi Ogunro, textile collages by Sarah Nsikak, photographs by Beoncia Dunn and floral arrangements by Karla Smith-Brown, plus an assortment of antiques – are handmade by the artists themselves.
In Los Angeles, Senior Housing Is Keeping One Neighborhood Alive

1 month ago | dwell.com | Diana Budds

View 9 PhotosA $50 million rehabilitation of a development in Little Tokyo centers on its dated community space, now a convivial ryokan-inspired hub for residents. View 9 PhotosHistory is repeating itself at the Little Tokyo Towers, a nonprofit affordable senior apartment building in Downtown Los Angeles. The project has its origins in the 1970s, when the Little Tokyo neighborhood endured significant redevelopment due to the expansion of the nearby Civic Center and local street widening projects.
A New York Design Week show spotlights the Black women artists

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Diana Budds

A small gallery at the Standard East Village has been transformed into what feels like a very stylish – and personal– living room for ‘Innerwoven,’ an exhibition of Black women artists held in conjunction with New York’s design week. All of the items in the space – including carved wood chairs by Nifemi Ogruno, textile collages by Sarah Nsikak, photographs by Beoncia Dunn and floral arrangements by Karla Smith-Brown, plus an assortment of antiques – are handmade by the artists themselves.
Neuroaesthetics Has Been Around for 25 Years. Are Architects Paying Attention Yet?

2 months ago | untappedjournal.com | Mark Byrnes |Diana Budds |Anjulie Rao |Peter Shire

When Susan Magsamen’s two-year-old granddaughter needs a nap, she brings her to a quiet room, pulls down the blackout curtains, and turns on a white-noise machine, creating the just-right setting to comfortably lull her to sleep. This type of ritual will sound familiar to caregivers of young children, but Magsamen wonders why, for the most part, we neglect how our environment makes us feel as we get older.
Nos EUA, empresas de cannabis investem no produto “comestível”

2 months ago | fastcompanybrasil.com | Diana Budds

Em 2017, Nathan Cozzolino fundou a Rose, uma marca de Los Angeles que segue o conceito “da fazenda ao prato”. Ele e sua equipe cultivavam cânhamo e maconha orgânicos, produziam balas de goma com doses baixas de THC e ingredientes naturais e vendiam os produtos em dispensários licenciados (a venda é regulamentada em vários estados dos EUA). Mas o modelo tinha um custo fixo alto, que ultrapassava US$ 80 mil por mês.
Dispatch from Milan: Luxury fashion rules the design scene, sustainability is still cool, and modernism is back

2 months ago | fastcompany.com | Diana Budds

During Milan Design Week—which encompasses Salone del Mobile, a furniture fair now in its 63rd edition, and Fuorisalone, the exhibitions held off-site—the Lombardian city transforms into a spritz-fueled celebration of all things design.