Product Design

Julie Lasky|Essays

Index Names Design Challenge Finalists

Among the seven projects dedicated to schoolchildren are educational games, classroom furniture and products that support comfort and hygiene.

Phil Patton|Report

Charging Double

Comparing two new electric-car chargers: Blink and WattStation

Maria Popova|Opinions

Rise of the Micro-Medici

On the value of microfunding creative ideas that stem from a single mind.

Nancy Levinson|Essays

Pillow Culture

Beyond sleep: the exhibition Pillow Culture looks at the pillow as designed object and technological artifact.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Alexandra Lange + Jane Thompson

Alexandra Lange and Jane Thompson discuss the power of imagination, Marimekko, Sir Lady Jane and Benjamin Thompson.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Little Boxes

AMAC Plastic Boxes are back at the Container Store: a rainbow classic sold at Design Research, part of the MoMA design collection, and starting at $0.39.

Julie Lasky|Projects

Bigshot Camera Update

Reporting the status of an innovative children's camera in development

Phil Patton|Essays

Keith Richards and His Amazing Portable Cassette Recorder

With the recent announcement that Sony has discontinued the Walkman, Phil Patton meditates on the powerful influence of portable music technology.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

You Have to Pay for the Public Design

Does a preference for design for private consumption threaten our public space?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

GourmetLive: The Architecture of Food

Now that we know we produce too much waste, now that aesthetics are suspect, now that we must compost or perish, how do design and architecture retool themselves for less, or better, or tastier consumption?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

What I Would Have Bought in Sweden

While the Swedish modern architecture we saw ran to blank surfaces of stone, glass and stucco, every store was bursting with color and pattern.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Safe Agua

The first collaboration between Designmatters at Art Center College of Design and Chile’s Un Techo para mi País creates fresh ideas for water usage in a Santiago slum.