"Beauty," Olafur Eliasson, 1993. In this work, a spotlight shines through a layer of mist to create a rainbow that's only visible from certain angles.

1993, Pierluigi Cerri.

One Wilshire is what’s called a telco hotel: The majority of its rooms are full of hard drives and cables, hosting information for global businesses.

Information Graphics by Sandra Rendgen and Julius Wiedemann (Taschen, 2012). Rendgen and Wiedemann’s book explores how we communicate visual information.

A photo of Verner Panton from 1993. © Panton Design, Basel

The collection receptacle gets suction from the main unit’s motor. The patented nozzle extends into the nasal cavity all the way to the maxillary sinus.

Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany, 1993

“For this project, [design director] Kyle [Blue] already had the architectural references for me, so to start, I asked an array of questions: What type of feel do you want? What’s the most important message to convey? What do we need to tell readers with the picture?” Gardner says. “He explained that the illustration needed to bring the structure into the environment and we kicked around ideas about putting a courtyard underneath and having people milling around. We went through two or three different variations.”

From Adrienne Adams’ What Makes A Shadow, 1960.

Maintaining a connection to their wooded backyard was an important consideration for the Edstroms. The back wall is designed to let in as much light and air as possible.

The Elevations Architectural Print Series is a thoughtful collection of portraits of famous international cities. In architectural drawings, elevations are flat representations of the façade of a building, showing a complete view of one building’s side. At the bottom of each Elevations Print, studio esinam includes details about each building pictured. The Paris Elevations Architectural Print includes architectural drawings of five buildings—Sacré-Cœur, Palais Garnier, Arc de Triomphe, Pont Marie, and Centre Georges Pompidou.

5. "What are the top 10 most important things I must have in a home?" "If there are two people buying the home, write your answers down separately, starting with your absolute must-haves," Hoffman explains. “Putting together a list separately can give both parties and the realtor a clear picture of what the perfect home will have for both of you."

After: The living room overlooks the great room below. Now when you walk in the house, you can see clear out to the trees in the back—an idea sparked by an interior designer friend who commented that the most important aspect of a design is what you see when you walk in the front door.

A unit facing Natoma Street looks on to what was once housing for the area's factory workers.

During our talk with Taschen art directors Andy Disl and Josh Baker on Sunday, June 23, at Dwell on Design, we'll be talking information design as it relates to the printed word. For further reading, we suggest Taschen's 2012 release, Information Graphics.

Here's what the kitchen looked like before.

The Waterloo International Terminal, 1993, in London. Image courtesy Jo Reid/John Peck.

Pepa gets a better view of what Gorman is explaining in the girls’ bathroom from her stump stool.

The eggs will coagulate as they come into contact with the hot pasta so it is important to work quickly.

Kellogg spent five years working on the house, and the structure was completed in 1993.

Little confusion over what this flipper is meant for.

Here's what the living room looked like before.

In the entryway, what at first appears to be a rug is actually cut blue glass terazzo designed by Marwan Al-Sayed.

It is all very mindful. “We proceeded with a philosophy and a vision,” says Chamberlin. “All of us understood that the poetry of what you look at is very important.”

The neighbors get a glimpse of what goes on in the Blauvelt-Winters courtyard.

Reflecting the client and what is most important to them: a calm, refined composition that belies its more complex nature – perfectly suited to the writer in residence.

"We felt it was important to create continuity with nature, rather than compete with it," Soranno stated. "The connection with nature is what makes this place special."

The header imagery gives a glimpse of what's to come at Hyperbole and a Half.

Here's what the glass bottle looks like sans covering.

What would you call this teardrop shaped wall hook?

When Rob and Mary Lubera started pulling threads to uncover the origins of their new home—the lone midcentury house amid rows of Tudor Revivals in suburban Detroit—not even architecture scholars could have anticipated what they would find. Theirs is the last surviving residence by Alexander Girard (1907–1993), a modernist visionary who made his name in textiles but tried his hand at virtually everything, architecture included. The shoji-like laminate screens, seen in the entryway, are characteristic of his Japanese-influenced work.

“We wanted something cozy with nooks, where you can be aware of what’s going on elsewhere,” says Isabel of the floor-to-ceiling shelving units. “They separate the environment, and cut the light a bit, but you can still see what’s happening in other spaces,” adds Matías.

“Beyond the age of information is the age of choices.” Says Demetrios of this quote, “Charles said this at the Aspen Design Conference in 1971, and that is exactly where we are today. When you think about it, the problem is not information, the problem is analyzing it, figuring out how to make sense of it and doing the appropriate thing with it. That’s the thinking that to me is so powerful.”