Design
How Futurist Art Inspired the Design of a BMW
The Italian art movement that celebrated modernity still moves us 100 years later
April 2012 |
By Abigail Tucker
How Ideas Become Shoes: Creativity in Process
Using shoe design to understand human creativity
March 30, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
These Shoes are Made for Printing
In many ways, 3D printing could be a superior way to manufacture shoes. But comfort isn't one yet.
March 28, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Tomorrow’s Mobile Home
Moving is a lot easier if you live inside a giant ball
March 23, 2012 |
By Matt Novak
How To Be Taller
A modern Scottish elevator shoe designer runs a global business from his Bangkok outpost
March 23, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Such Great Heights: The Hidden Architecture of Elevator Shoes
How a shoe designed to address male inadequacy has become a symbol of female fashion sense
March 21, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
The Shape of Fruits to Come
How our need for convenience is redesigning our food supply
March 16, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
And for Dessert: An Object Lesson on Simple Pleasure
How a disappointing dessert becomes an object lesson on simplicity and pleasure
March 14, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Drones: The Citrus Industry’s New Beauty Secret
In the future, farmers will use unmanned drones to improve the appearance of their crops
March 09, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Who Is Linda Tatersmith?
If flashy package design can lure people into eating factory-extruded chemical slurries, why shouldn’t it work to trick junk food addicts into eating a vegetable?
March 06, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Airships and Oranges: The Commercial Art of the Second Gold Rush
How citrus crate label design fueled a boom that caused the art form's own demise.
March 01, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Design Specs for a Genetically Ideal Snack
How plant geneticists are growing convenience food on trees
February 27, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Designing the Perfect Fruit
How a tiny, seedless fruit becomes the iPhone of the produce aisle.
February 23, 2012 |
By Sarah C. Rich
Imagining a City of Treelike Buildings
Amid growing concerns that skyscrapers were blocking sunlight for people on the ground, a British architect proposed a novel solution.
February 17, 2012 |
By Matt Novak
How Much the Hope Diamond is Worth and Other Questions From Our Readers
From American art, history and culture, air and space technology, contemporary art, Asian art and any of the sciences from astronomy to zoology, we'll find an answer
February 07, 2012 |
By Aviva Shen
Q and A With Architect David Adjaye
The designer of the National Museum of African American History and Culture talks about his vision for the new building
February 2012 |
By Joseph Stromberg
Curators, Scientific Adventurers and Book Worms to Watch in 2012
Our top ten picks from the Smithsonian Twitterati and blogrolls.
January 20, 2012 |
By Aviva Shen
In The Future, All Women Will Be Amazons
A 1950 news report predicted that women in the year 2000 would be "more than six feet tall, wear a size 11 shoe, have shoulders like a wrestler and muscles like a truck driver."
January 20, 2012 |
By Matt Novak
The Sistine Chapel of the Andes
Just miles from Peru’s Incan ruins lie artifacts from another era—beautiful Baroque churches that married Spanish design with indigenous culture
January 12, 2012 |
By Rebecca Dalzell
Building a Better World With Green Cement
With an eye on climate change, a British startup creates a new form of the ancient building material
December 2011 |
By Michael Rosenwald
