Topic: Ray Eames

Design Rules

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Three Designers Beautifully Reinvent the Arm Cast + an Eames Leg Splint for Good Measure

Three arm-cast designs that improve upon age-old methods--and one classic that achieved world-changing influence.READ»

A Student Portfolio

Assignments from "Essentials of Industrial Design."READ»

Romancing the Dilapidated: What Will Post-Recession Décor Look Like?

Will the financial crisis translate into a discernible new style?READ»

Can We Afford Design During a Downturn?

I have been asked several times of late whether managers (and management students) should be expected to invest in design and design thinking during an economic downturn. There are at least two kinds of answers to this ...READ»

Do Bad Economies Produce Great Buildings?

Are recessions good for architecture? As painful as downturns may be, a bracing change often betters the built environment. A go-go economy licenses too many complacent ideas, and too much overwrought styling. (How many of us ...READ»

The Man Who Loved Chairs

Rolf Fehlbaum, CEO of Vitra, really cares about chairs. His company is a celebration of what to some is the most mundane object in the office -- but to him is a source of passion.READ»

'Objectified' Review: A Hurricane of Consumer Values

    There's a moment, at the beginning of the documentary Objectified, where Jonathan Ive, Apple's head of design, takes his iPhone out of his pocket and wipes it along the hem of his shirt to remove the ...READ»

• Gary Hustwit's "Objectified" [video]

The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach

Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?READ»

• Seeing Double: Is It DWR or Someone Else?

How to Stream Your Music From Mac to Anywhere

Apple's new Mac Mini now ships with server software, but Apple's suggested uses are vanilla. With 1TB of storage and plenty of power, let's put it to good use and stream some music and movies over the Intertubes. Snow Leopard ...READ»

Does Architecture Have a Foot Fetish?

You don't have to try very hard to spot the architecture students on a college campus. They're the ones with the carefully considered shoes (and artful eyewear). It's easy to see why architects are so selective about their footwear: ...READ»

Required Reading for Interactive Designers

The storied School of Visual Arts, in New York, just published a list of required reading for the incoming class of students in its MFA interaction-design program. Here's a chance to get SVA MFA education for $58,000 off (not ...READ»

Chronicling Companies

Between 1880 and 1930, Minneapolis was the "flour milling capital of the world," grinding enough flour in a day to make 12 million loaves of bread. The new Mill City Museum is housed in the Washburn A Mill, at one time the most ...READ»

Herman Miller Debuts Its Newest Office Chair, the Setu

A high-tech design whose lines were inspired by a modern masterpieceREAD»

The 15 Best Product Designs

Craig Vogel and Jonathan Cagan offer their list of the top-15 best-designed consumer products of the past 100 years. What's on your list?READ»

Julius Shulman, the World's Greatest Architectural Photographer, Dies at 98

The legendary lenser is the subject of a beautiful new documentary that celebrates his over 70-year career.READ»

The Designer Who Meant Business

It is somehow fitting that what is arguably corporate design's most powerful mantra—"Good design is good business"—is widely credited to former IBM chief Thomas Watson Jr., but was in fact formulated by the architect and ...READ»

Debating the Design Depression: Austerity vs Extravagance

Sure, the economy's on life support, and shelter magazines have been hung out to dry, but design is not dead yet. The tallest skyscraper on the planet is rocketing into the stratosphere over Dubai, and $600 plastic chairs are ...READ»

Nike's Women's Movement

Can a famously high-testosterone company, built on brash ads and male athletic fantasies, finally click with female customers? That's the challenge behind Nike Goddess, whose goal is a once-and-for-all shift in how the company sells to, designs for, and communicates with women.READ»