And Now for Something (Almost) Completely Different

Credit Edward Barber. When the London designer stopped by to talk about his bottle for a Coca-Cola drink, we wondered why it looked so unusual. That's easy, he said. His firm had never done packaging before. We started asking other designers about new frontiers and found fashion people doing interiors. Architects doing clothes. Graphic designers editing magazines. Whatever happened to pigeonholes? That's easy. They're for the birds.

Features

Grape Expectations
A happy, successful designer confesses his true ambition. By Marco Pasanella

I Love Isaac
With his home products for Target, Isaac Mizrahi changes hats, but he still conquers hearts.
By Barbara Flanagan

Message in a Bottle
A pair of British tastemakers prove you don't have to be packaging designers to produce a hip flask.
By Ernest Beck

Designer Labels
What do you call people who work with sketches and models? Architects? Fashion designers? Yes.
By Eve M. Kahn

Personal Best
Thomas Heatherwick designs the biggest, sportiest sculpture in England.
By Lucy Bullivant

Kalman's Sampler
An assortment of new projects from the queen of "New Yorkistan."
By Jane Margolies

Snøw Job
A Norwegian design collective takes on a big, tiny challenge.
By Alanna Stang

It's Lacroix, Darling
The fashion maestro designs an absolutely fabulous hotel.
By Barbara Murdoch

A Breed Apart
Working across borders, Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar create a new strain of furniture.
By Ronald Jones

Fearless Factor
A designing couple undertakes one of the world's riskiest ventures- publishing a magazine.
By David Womack

Departments

.../letters
Complaints about The I.D. Forty

.../update
Developments in I.D. stories published a year ago

.../note
The breakdown of disciplinary boundaries signals a critical moment in design.
By Julie Lasky

.../expo
2x4 show in San Francisco. Prouvé prefab house in New Haven. Starchitect hotel in Madrid.

.../q+a
Trend forecaster Robyn Waters, on the value of authenticity
By Virginia Postrel

.../rant
Another reason to hate The Donald
By Mark Dery

.../source
Eastman Chemical markets the sensual qualities of materials.
By David Sokol

.../n+n
Pucci store in Tokyo's Ginza district
By David Sokol

.../crit Audio: Sonos Digital Music System
Reviewed by Edward Mcpherson
Conference: TED 2005
Reviewed by Julie Lasky
Navigation: TomTom GO
Reviewed by Phil Patton
Book: 10x10_2
Reviewed by Nancy Levinson

.../flashback
I.D., March/April 1982
MoMA's "Good Design" Programs
Written by Richard Horn
Annotated by Michael Kimmelman