Design : Featured Stories

Check out our picks for the week's top events.

Check out our picks for the week's top events.

South Fourth Street is a commercial corridor in transition -- long home to the city's fabric industry, this Queen Village thoroughfare is attracting an increasingly diverse slate of boutiques, eateries and maker-centric businesses. 

By combining creativity with social justice advocacy, two Philadelphia artists are making life better for the previously incarcerated. 

Check out our picks for the week's top events.

Check out our picks for the week's top events.

Whether they're posting about interior design, craft beer, life's absurdities, parenting or state-centric travel, these five bloggers have used determination -- and the magic of the web -- to reach readers across the globe.

When ambition meets great design, the result is a flourishing company manufacturing cutting-edge custom doors, windows and greenhouses.

Whether you're a 16-year-old who's never touched a power tool, a union carpenter, a design student, or a 20-something skateboarder, Public Workshop's Building Heroes program offers an opportunity to design, build and even sell your next big idea.

Philly is still a bastion for quirky independent stores selling classic superhero tales, rare back issues, manga, independent titles and more. As comics continue to provide grist for the blockbuster mill, don't neglect the charms of the source material.

Check out our list of projects, initiatives and infrastructure upgrades that will boost the City of Brotherly Love in the new year.

This Fishtown-based artist builds intricate scale models of buildings at risk for demolition or development.

Flying Kite highlights some of the city's most inspiring and revolutionary projects, from the rescue of the Divine Lorraine to the Reading Viaduct's reinvention to luxury living in Logan Circle. There's a lot worth getting worked up over.

In September, the Urban Innovation Exchange hosted its first convening in Detroit. Participants came from around the country, and for three days, Motor City became a marketplace for ideas.

From September 24 through 26, a group of innovators working on small scale, place-based projects around the country convened in Detroit to talk about what works in their cities.