up with Brooklyn-based retail outlet Carol’s Daughter to design a new home for its bath and body products. “We created a space where you just don’t view the products but experience them as you would ...

Some of the corporate logos for which Paul Rand is best remembered. (image via irishtimes.com) Before the 1950s, most advertising was just copywriting paired with an image with little thought to the ...

Everyone thinks they understand good design, and while we all understand our tastes, there’s more to making a product well designed than just making it pretty. Form and function have to combine to ...

McLurkin, who hopes the robots or at least the technology will travel to the Red Planet someday, served as lead research scientist on the Swarm project for the Boston-based robotics firm iRo bot. He ...

After a 46-year career at The New York Times, Mr. Bodkin is retiring from his role as chief creative officer. By Emmett Lindner Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers ...

If you think that “Memphis” is only a place name, think again. Memphis is also a movement. In the early 1980s, a group of Italian designers were bored with the mantras of modernism—“form follows ...

Whether it’s a building, logo, website, or software, good design is easy to recognise. Most people may not realise that good design has just as much to do with how something works as it does with how ...

When designing packaging, it’s easy to get carried away with the creative. It’s an involved process, and you can occasionally forget who you’re really designing for. We all have personal tastes when ...

Aesthetically, Steelcase Karman is made to blend into a modern interior with soft technology that is not visible to the eye. It diminishes the style gap between office and living furniture. Image ...

Widex – the developer of the hearing aids that were music to my husband’s ears three years ago – seems to have outdone itself in terms of innovative hearing aid design. The company recently launched ...