Rebekka Bay, the creative director of Gap, has strict rules about how to design a collection. She also has rules for how to break the rules >>

Andrew Hessel Prints Medicine

Hessel's team at Autodesk is designing software that may help crowdsource a cancer cure.
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Andrew Hessel's Autodesk Team Seeks Crowdsourced Cancer Cure
Sha Hwang, the Designer Hired to Make Obamacare a Beautiful Thing

Saving Obamacare

How this data-viz superstar helped turn around healthcare.gov >>
Ben Terrett Makes the UK's One-Stop Government Website Cool

Overthrow
the .gov

Ben Terrett on making it cool and easy to renew a passport >>

Architects Gordon Gill and Adrian Smith on Building the World's Tallest Towers

Gordon Gill
and
Adrian Smith

Find out why designing the world's tallest skyscrapers is less about defying gravity than confusing the wind >>

ILM is the Lucasfilm visual effects shop behind some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood, from Star Wars to Die Hard. Hal Hickel shows us around >>

 
 

GADI AMIT
IS MAKING WEARABLES BEARABLE

STUDIO
VISIT
With LIT MOTORS'
Daniel Kim

 

Bot & Dolly and the Rise of Creative Robot

Tobias Kinnebrew on the robots that made Gravity>>

We work
on things that
don't seem possible and try to make them possible

 

French fashion line Ami finds success creating clothes for regular guys >>

 

Asanas Justin Rosenstein: How to Talk to Designers If Youre Not a Designer

Design needs to feed people

Neville Brody says how >>

Architect Craig Dykers on His Plans for SFMOMA and Remaking Times Square

CRAIG DYKERS MAKES BUILDINGS PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE SEX ON

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman talks inflatable ducks and cement aardvarks
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Architect Liz Diller's firm raises urban renewal to high art >>
Framestore's Charles Howell on the Visual Effects in Gravity

CHARLES HOWELL TELLS US WHEN ACTORS WILL BECOME OBSOLETE

James Ramsey on building parks underground
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Jay Cross on the beauty of an 80-story building

BEN KAUFMAN SAYS:

put patents in their place

 

Intuit: How Design Drove Its Turnaround

Kaaren Hanson and Brad Smith of Intuit on taxes as a design problem
Ideo reimagines education in Peru
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