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The 10 Most Innovative Consumer Product Companies

From Nike to Nissan, these companies are creating remarkable merchandise for the public.READ»

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The Best New Tools for Making Old-Fashioned Jams and Preserves

Nothing is both so on trend and old-fashioned as homemade preserves. Here's what you need to get cooking.READ»

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The Secrets Behind Great Design: IDSA Announces Catalyst Case Study Winners

The greatest design innovations invariably have a story behind them: the insight that led to a radical new way to solve a problem, the failure that led to a breakthrough, the serendipity where colliding forces led to a profound ...READ»

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Oxo Redesigns the Common Syringe

The new design helps those with rheumatoid arthritis with the tricky task of self-administered injections.READ»

Welcoming Guest Blogger Tom Dair: To Design Smart, Keep It Simple

Smart Design is, well, one of the smartest design shops we know. You may not know the firm by name, but you certainly know its products: OXO Good Grips kitchen tools, Hewlett Packard Photo Printers, Ford's "Smart Gauge" for hybrid ...READ»

Objectified: The New Design Film That Sickens, Inspires

"Your movie made me physically sick," one audience member told Gary Hustwit (left), the director of Objectified, the eagerly anticipated film about industrial design, last night at a screening in New York. Far from ...READ»

Smart Design's Dan Formosa on the Power of People, Simplicity and Gossip

He was on the design team that developed the first IBM computer. He worked on design for the OXO Good Grips kitchen tools and Ford's SmartGauge we wrote about here last week, but Smart Design founder Dan Formosa has actually ...READ»

Five Top Design Firms Make the Gadgets We Love

American industrial designers are the secret heroes of the marketplace, finessing products to make them easier to use and help them sell better. Here's how five top firms have been busy shaping our world.READ»