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Q&A: Nina Rappaport

By Susan S. Szenasy

A study of vertical urban factories

Tough Love

By Derrick Mead and Martin C. Pedersen

DWR's John Edelman offers up some blunt advice for young product designers bent on "expressing themselves."

Made in America

By Kadie Yale

Newly designed 3Form showroom works like a built-in product demo

Help Save NYC Historic Places

By Ryan A. Cunningham

Vote and help restore, preserve, and revitalize

The Ways We Work: III

By Jan Johnson

Keeping the worker in mind

Re-imagining Infrastructure

By Neil Chambers

Ecomimicry offers alternative solutions to public works spending

Design as a Public Service

By John Cary

Grads are encouraged to seek a sense of purpose

What if "sustainability" meant just doing the right thing?

By Kira Gould

Adding value and meaning to business... and life

To the New Grads at UC Berkeley

By Emily Pilloton

Architects and Designers: Let's build the change we wish to see.

Dangerous Four-letter Words and more

By Kira Gould

Love is what we need

Judge a Franchise by Its Cover

By Carli Heggen

From book cover to multi-million dollar franchise--the power of a good image

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Magazine

So You Want to Be a Product Designer

By Barbara Eldredge & Derrick Mead

Seven influential talent scouts on getting your designs out of the studio and onto the market

The building boom in the Middle East– spearheaded in large part by Western design firms–is the latest chapter in that region’s centuries-old struggle between its cultural identity and its utopian dreams.

Observed

Sowing the Seed

By Kimberlie Birks

O Studio Architects’ concrete church makes a statement about religion in China.

Notes from Metropolis

Myopia

By Susan S. Szenasy

Architecture students focus on buildings, but not on the people who live in and around them.

America

Pretty Little Pictures

By Karrie Jacobs

Even when MoMA is tackling real issues, its obsession with image manages to obscure some of its most important content.

In Production

All Dressed Up

By Mason Currey

Studio Catoir’s new Okumi armchair wears its kimono-inspired upholstery.

Perspective

Vishaansanity

By Philip Nobel

SHoP’s new partner, Vishaan Chakrabarti, promises to turbo-charge a firm already operating at full speed.

Productsphere

Across Borders

By Paul Makovsky

The global smorgasbord of design will be as vibrant as ever at this year’s ICFF.

Ben Katchor

The National Plunger Corps

By Ben Katchor

“Our nation’s restrooms are the most vulnerable link in our homeland security network.”

Events

May 19—May 22

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2011 Metropolis Conference Videos Now Online

This year’s ICFF conference featured a cast of “design entrepreneurs” who are reinventing their practices through creative approaches to the new economy.