Features
The Kidd Stays in the Picture
Twenty years into his celebrated career, book-cover designer Chip Kidd pauses to take inventory.
Interview by Jonathan Safran Foer
It¹s a Jungle Out There
A technophile bushwhacks through the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show to pick the year's most outrageous gadgets.
by tom rielly
A Makeover for Misery
The brief was simple: Propose a new use for a North Korean building. The response was outrage.
by michael dumiak
Storybook Ending
How a dying Swedish steel town found salvation through design.
by johanna lenander
Unisex Sells
Design is crossing the gender line with increasing boldness. Which products are leading the charge?
by greg lindsay
Squeeze Play
A German university experiments with compact housing. Keg parties not recommended.
by bradford mckee
Edith Heath (19112005)
Remembering the enterprising ceramicist, who never received her due.
by steven skov holt
Design Under the Gun
Since 9/11, an aesthetic of violence has taken root. Are product designers finally getting critical?
by colin davies and monika parrinder
Departments
/LETTERS
Competing takes on our religion issue
/UPDATE
Developments in I.D. stories from a year ago.
/NOTE
Revisiting South Africa¹s Design Indaba
by julie lasky
/EXPO
Fabio Novembre¹s revolutionary sofa. Modernism at the V&A. Finland comes to Brooklyn. Happy 100th birthday, Viktor Schreckengost.
/Q+A
Daniel Pinchbeck on the year 2012
by julie lasky
/RANT
Why must a pleasant night at an outdoor concert lead to thoughts of furniture?
by akiko busch
/MARKET
Making ancient Japanese crafts available to contemporary designers
by lucy birmingham fujii
/SOURCE
A new reference book spares graphic designers a dreary chore.
by colin berry
/N+N
Printed Matter¹s new home in Manhattan. Fabrics by Kinnasand. Kitchen tools by Royal VKB. Wallcoverings by Abbott Miller.
by jill singer
/CRIT
Package: Phaidon Design Classics
reviewed by eve m. kahn
Transportation: Ford Reflex
reviewed by phil patton
Product: Stanley Tools's Fubar
reviewed by joe brown
Book: The Edifice Complex
reviewed by nancy levinson
/BACK STORY
Why buttons for men and women are on different sides.
by nancy einhart
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