Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped n
Somebody might be able to do a great painting that’s 20 x 30 inches, but you take that down to 1 x 1
Before the 1850s, dentures were made out of very hard, very painful and very expensive material, lik
Beauty Pill is band I really like from Washington DC. They have released two EPs (The Cigarette Girl
The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis became most famous at the moment of its demise. The thi
“There’s a secret jazz seeping from Washington’s aging Metro escalators – those anemic metal walkway
Anonymous is not group. It is not an organization. Rob Walker describes Anonymous as a “loosely affi
Paola Antonelli is the Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of
It’s totally unfair. Hydrox cookies came out four years before the introduction of Oreos, but Hydrox
United Nations Plaza sits in the center of San Francisco. Most people consider it a complete failure
It’s hard to imagine a place where more desperate and depressing drama unfolds on a daily basis than
If Dennis Baxter and Bill Whiston are doing their job right, you probably don’t notice that they’re
If I asked you to close your eyes and mimic the action of using one of the simple human interfaces o
Cities are pretty robust organisms, they tend to survive even when put under tremendous stress and s
I want to be careful not to overstate what it means for a building to die. A building’s worth is an
Last year, Steve Burrows CBE (Principle at the engineering consulting firm Arup) spent several weeks
If you look at the outer hull of commercial ships, you might find a painted circle bisected with a l
When I spoke with Allison Arieff about the design of airports, she said to me, if all airports simpl
Nicholas Felton is an information designer. Since 2005, he has tabulated thousands upon thousands of
In 1998 Dr. Gary Kaplan, the CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle received some bad news
When people critique cul-de-sacs, a lot of the time, they’re actually critiquing the suburbs more ge
