FEATURES

Beautiful Tool
Jürg Lehni, a Swiss computer engineer, helps graphic artists produce effects they never dreamed of by David Womack and Lisa Trollbäck

You Dainty Rat
The Swedish dadaists of Front embrace randomness. That's why they partner with gravity, sunlight, and snakes.
by Ronald Jones

Acrylic and Old Lace
Flávia Pagotti Silva's furniture mixes global ingredients with Brazilian seasoning. For that matter, so does she.
by Andrea Codrington

By the Light of the Silvery Room
Based in New York, As Four marries art and fashion and, occasionally, each other.
by Louisa Kamps

Fringe Festival
Syrup Helsinki is suspicious of fame. Too bad this Finnish pair is attracting so many clients.
by Akiko Busch

The Apprentices
Designers who trained with the stars share thoughts about mentoring the next generation.
by Susan Yelavich

School of Hard Knocks
At Havana's industrial design institute, students make the most of scant resources.
by Belmont Freeman

2004 Student Design Review
Jurors: Art Chantry, Maira Kalman, Lyn Rice
Moderated by Alice Twemlow

DEPARTMENTS

/letters
Award-winning design shouldn't guzzle gas. Jumping to mechanical conclusions. Misreading a foe of sprawl.

/note
Michael Moore's debt to Ray Bradbury comes down to a powerful element: fire.
by Julie Lasky

/expo
Princess Di memorial is carved by computer. Ted Muehling cracks Steuben. Droog takes over Lille.

/q+a
Bruce Mau on his multimedia project "Massive Change" and the end of design as we know it.
by Max Bruinsma

/rant
Well-wrought products for the masses were a postwar dream-and we're still waiting for them.
by Mark Dery

/campus
ECAL students get creative with museum gift-store merchandise.
by Julie Lasky

/r+d
A shockingly simple way to preserve steel-frame buildings.
by Eve M. Kahn

/n+n
Ever since the Shop at Cooper-Hewitt opened with a splash of Kelly green, classic and commissioned pieces have been flying out of there.
by David Sokol

/crit
Product: Febreze Scentstories
reviewed by Edward McPherson

Architecture: Hollywood Bowl
reviewed by Joseph Giovannini

Exhibition: Marc Newson
reviewed by Aaron Betsky

Book: Copies in Seconds
reviewed by Eve M. Kahn

/flashback
Industrial Design, October 1974
Introducing the Bricklin SVI
written by George T. Finley
updated by Phil Patton