Life's Rich Pageant
We didn't set out to make existence the theme of this issue. We just got to thinking about birth, death, sex, school, and aging, and before we knew it, a whole lineup had passed before our eyes.
Features
Just My Imagination
A new furniture line may turn out to be a child's best playmate.
by Eve M. Kahn
A Is for Adaptable
Today's most progressive school designs put the stress on flexibility.
by Thomas de Monchaux
Wish You Were Here
A trio of experts reviews design school catalogs.
by James Gaddy
In the Mood for Love
Six designers imagine the ideal setting for losing
one's virginity.
Monica Khemsurov
Sex and the Single Hand
An abundance of new contraceptives offers something even better than erotic freedom—user-friendliness.
by Nathaniel Wice
With This Fern, I Thee Wed
Brides and grooms are jumping on the sustainability bandwagon.
by Emily Bobrow
Over the Hill Gang
Products that help take the insult out of middle age.
by Tom Rielly
Senior Momentum
Can design and technology deliver a golden age of aging?
by Juanita Dugdale
Dark Days Ahead
A tale of woe
by Mark Newgarden
Recipe for Trouble
Only you can help a 1960s typographical icon from meeting its sorry end.
by Eve M. Kahn
God of Small Things
How Japan honors the unborn
by Eve M. Kahn
Departments
/UPDATE
Developments in I.D. stories from May 2006
/NOTE
This issue's subject may be as basic as LIFE, but the solutions are extraordinary.
by Julie Lasky
/EXPO
Jasper Morrison builds on his crate
noah's ark takes shape at a new children's museum
Cutting-edge concepts for urban parking
/Q+A
min Wang on branding the Beijing Olympics with a mix of tradition and timeliness
Interview by Aric Chen
/RANT
Why seniors hate high-tech
by Barbara Flanagan
/SCAPE
Camilo José Vergara documents the afterlife of kentucky fried chicken outlets.
by Jesse Ashlock
/STUDIO
ross lovegrove's otherworldly London workplace
by Fiona Rattray
/TREND
Design pairs off in products for couples.
by Jill Singer
/N+N
bape Kids by Wonderwall
Javier Mariscal's Children's furniture for Magis
Matali Crasset's kid-friendly desk for Balouga
by Jill Singer
/CRIT
Building: interactivecorp headquarters
(reviewed by Thomas de Monchaux)
Exhibition: reinventing the globe
(reviewed by Bradford McKee)
Product: turbochef double wall speedcook oven
(reviewed by Nicole Dyer)
Book: designing interactions
(reviewed by Phil Patton)
/BACK STORY
How the pacifier became a baby's breast friend
by Susan Yelavich
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