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Our "Process" queen Virginia Gardiner currently lives in London, where she is finishing up a master's degree in industrial design engineering. "It has been fun but also tiring," she reports. "I spend a lot of time in the workshop with glue and other stuff on my hands and have recently been casting lots of shapes in horse poo from the horses that trot around Buckingham Palace. But we have to make stuff with a market, so I'm working on a new waterless toilet.

Inspecting Gadgets
These days, a growing number of gizmos contain both a cell phone and a PDA.
Italian Design: La Mappa
You know where your Parmesan cheese comes from: Parma. But which region offers the best chairs? We've mapped it out for you.
Italian Design: Il Futuro
As impressive as Italy’s design legacy is, it’s the future that moves this lot. Get the inside track on what’s next.
Italian Design: Passato al Presente
A look at the greats of Italian design, from past untill present.
Un'Introduzione al Disegno Italiano
From Marble to mobili, Italy has been a, if not the, design mecca for the last century. Here's why.
Dyson Airblade
Several years ago, Dyson, the British company famed for its vacuum cleaners, made a foray into uncharted commercial territory.
Modern Istanbul Design: Autoban
Istanbul modern? In a word, it’s Autoban.
Shelf Life
Though he appears to live alone, this graphically inclined Parisian commissioned an apartment that deftly houses his many...
Massimo Iosa Ghini: The Speed of Design
Designer Massimo Iosa Ghini takes a moment to reflect on the hazards of speed and the merits of Europe’s standard of living.
She’s No Dummy
As Volvo crash-test engineer Laura Thackray knows, dummies—even virtual ones—can teach us a thing or two about safety.
Beantown Dream
In this tightly packed Northeast city where developers pounce first on any available lot, two young architects found a rare...
Waste Opportunity
While the Western world forgets its waste with a flush, 2.6 billion people don’t even have toilets.
A 400-sq-ft New York Apartment Gets a Second Chance
New Yorkers often work, eat, sleep, and entertain in a single room.
Seeing What Develops
In 2004, The Houses at Sagaponac—a controversial development on eastern Long Island—celebrated its first completed house.
New Beginnings
Uni, an international group of designers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is riding out a self-professed renovation high that never...
The Trabecula Bench
Freedom of Creation—In recent decades, computer-aided design (CAD) has transcended the screen, thanks to the advent of automatic...
Tools of the Trade
Design-build practices invest considerable time in setting up shop and tremendous capital in tools.
Design, Build, and Beyond
An increasing number of contributors to our ever-expanding built world are referring to their practices as design-build.
Patricia Urquiola on the T-Table by Kartell
T-Table stands for transgenic table.
Moroso Factory Tour
Moroso, the Italian furniture company known for discovering remarkable designers such as Ron Arad and Patricia Urquiola,...
Emerald in the Rough
An architect and artist flee Dublin for the countryside to build a biodegradable house and raise their children.
Village Green
This place was a filthy dump when we bought it,” says Cathryn Barmon, sipping tea in a knockoff Le Corbusier chair.
Palace Intrigue
In the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, architect Rytis Mikulionis spent several years property hunting for his first nesting...
Sum of Its Parts
Taking cues from traditional Swedish rooflines but rejecting the precedent of subpar prefab, Claesson Koivisto Rune bring light...
Mademoiselle Pillow
Looolo—When we think about products and their life cycles, textiles aren’t the first things that come to mind.