A 1980 film about a Coke bottle dropped over the desert might be the best metaphor for what’s happened to design.

Why are predictions on the Future of Architecture (capital F, capital A) always so wrong?

While we may have rejected the box as the standard architectural form, we’re more dedicated to it than ever.

Architecture has yet to acknowledge the impact of social media on our experience of physical space.

Can Amazon’s new digital reader do for print what the iPod did for music?

­What are the implications for industrial designers if the strongest consumer impulse becomes not buying?

An introduction to our annual special products issue

­What’s an industrial designer to do in the midst of economic chaos? Our columnist offers some career advice.

­A curious lineage exists between the dapper Frenchman and today’s contemporary stars.

The master of modern ergonomics talks about the ultimate form of market analysis.