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July 2002

Features

Utopia Now

India is a magnet for planned communities, from the spiritualist Auroville to the capitalist New Oroville.

The Smart Hands of Hella Jongerius

The Dutch designer--working the seams between craft and art, past and present--explores the industrialized one-off.

Making Buildings Talk

Using her flair for type, Paula Scher enlivens architecture.

Iconic Workspaces

Metropolis takes a decade-by-decade look at celebrated interiors that have transformed the way we work.

Sound + Vision

He's a techie who thinks conceptually, a designer who makes art, a humble collaborator with ideas of his own. But what, exactly, does multimedia maestro Ben Rubin do?

Better Than the Boys

The most influential figure in retail architecture isn't an architect--she's Comme des Garçons's fashion designer Rei Kawakubo.


Departments

Notes from Metropolis: Learning to Work Together
Michigan art and design students work together to get to Milan.

The Metropolis Observed
The one-man monorail; getting baked with Marcel Wanders; L.A. kids on grass; vintage Hamptons in Tribeca; hugging trees with Russel Wright; products with Hidden charms; observations from the mentalKLINIK; Allsteel's favorite number; bridge over troubled ground.

Perspective: Universal Understanding

A universal-design competition mistakenly promotes ergonomics instead.

In Production: The Frame Game
Flemming Busk's Frame ottoman for Globe.

Far Corner: Fortress America

Will temporary plans for security install a permanent state of fear?

Productsphere: The Shape of Information
Information design in products, furniture, and type.

In Review
Peter Hall on the Toledo Museum of Art exhibition that traces the roots of American industrial design back to Toledo; new and notable books on architecture, culture, and design.

Up & Coming
Upcoming events and conferences.

Reference Page
More information on people, places, and products covered in this month's issue.

Ben Katchor
Crowd Control

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