Explore - Product Design

Work is work, but working from home is better, especially if you have the right setup.

We’re surrounded by legions of products, most of them unremittingly lousy. What separates the good from the bad from the ugly? Take out your well-designed pencils for Product Design 101.

Inside vast concrete buildings all over the world, gizmos and gears (assisted by human hands, of course) assemble everything from enormous plasma TVs to endless rolls of colorful fabric to high-end...

Last night I went to a corner liquor store to buy some toothpaste. While the beer and candy aisles of the store were heavily trafficked, the back “household goods” section was not. And...

Good design isn’t inextricably wed to a high price tag. These classic designs run the gamut of types and prices. 

The Champ Phaidon Design Classics: 001–999. Phaidon Press, 2006 This quintessential collection of 999 product designs in three thigh-numbing volumes explores product design from the late 16...

Bad design can be not just unattractive but unhealthy. Steer clear of this trio of second-rate offerings.

In early 2003 Droog Design invited me and several other Dutch designers to collaborate with the local industries around Lille to design products for the Lille 2004 Cultural Capital of Europe ...

I am really interested in pieces made using vegetable-based, biodegradable materials.

As impressive as Italy’s design legacy is, it’s the future that moves this lot. Get the inside track on what’s next.

It is an overcast morning in Gumi. Contrary to a name that evokes cute rainbows of fruit flavor, the view from the hotel window consists of a salvage yard, a river with wide, sandy banks, and a...

When it comes to great product design, the material is often the message. Matuse’s wetsuits prove why.

We live in a manufactured world. But is it some kind of utopia, full of iPods, Swiffers, and pre-cut fruit? Or is it a proverbial hell on earth, physically destroying half the planet while eating...

T-Table stands for transgenic table.

We asked three product designers from three different fields what the future holds. Oddly, none of them mentioned crystal balls.

Charrette: An intense period of design activity in which a group collaborates to work out a solution to a specific design problem. It’s like a workshop, but sounds either more important or...