By The New York Times This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. When Marcel Wanders and Casper Vissers started the Dutch furniture company Moooi in 2001, it was ...

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 ...

“When did it start? It really started in my head a long, long time ago.” So says Emily G. Hanna about when the idea came to her for the new exhibition at the Mingei International Museum. To hear her ...

Power-electronics design involves a multiplicity of tradeoffs that can be guided by criteria that are useful in assessing how close a design is to optimum. This article surveys some common guiding ...

The utopian image of productive, social employees that open office once conjured has not met expectations. While the elimination of private offices in favor of communal workstations has cut costs, in ...

The way people interact with their communities is changing. Habits are evolving, with more people working from home or looking for office space they can easily access through public transit, ...

American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: “Form follows function.” That adage is also vital to data center ...

The most common element you see on any web page is a form. Some place to enter in some data; whether it be your username and password, or a wall post on your mom's Facebook wall. Luke Wroblewski is a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Ewing writes about luxury and performance automobiles. This article is more than 8 years old. Achim Anscheidt, design ...