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What Is Good Design Now?
Listen in on Slate's panel featuring Adam Gopnik, Jonathan Adler, Ahmad Sardar-Afkhami, and Paula Scher.   		  Mar 27, 2009   Design  
Stick Figure
The marketing genius who brought us the toothpick.   		Henry Petroski   Oct 31, 2007   Design  
Coming to America
Muji, the Japanese design powerhouse, is opening U.S. stores. Hallelujah!   		Michael Hsu   Sep 21, 2007   Design  
How Modernism Got Its Curves
A look at the extraordinary career of designer Eva Zeisel.   		Virginia Postrel   Sep 01, 2005   Design  
The U.S. Army's New Clothes
Why has the Army redesigned its uniforms?   		Tom Vanderbilt   Sep 08, 2004   Design  
Grand Old Flag?
The tricky task of designing a national symbol.   		Christopher Hawthorne   May 28, 2004   Design  
Simply the Best
MoMA celebrates everyday objects.   		Tom Vanderbilt   May 11, 2004   Design  
Drink Me
How Americans came to have cup holders in their cars.   		Henry Petroski   Mar 15, 2004   Design  
Supersize It
Our waistlines aren't all that's expanding—our stuff is, too.   		James Verini   Mar 03, 2004   Design  
Courier, Dispatched
How the U.S. State Department put the kibosh on the typewriter font.   		Tom Vanderbilt   Feb 20, 2004   Design  
Eye Do
What does the New York Times redesign say about its self-image?   		Christopher Hawthorne   Nov 05, 2003   Design  
Wanted: A Legible Voting Ballot
Why it's time to redesign the ballot design process.   		Jessie Scanlon   Oct 06, 2003   Design  
Humble Throne
Assessing Herman Miller's downscale Aeron—the Mirra.   		Jessie Scanlon   Jul 01, 2003   Design  
The Pottery Barn Revolution
There's hope for American furniture.   		Karen Lehrman   Jun 18, 1998   Design  
The Cutting Edge
Gillette's Mach 3 razor may be flashy, but it works.   		Thomas Hine   May 07, 1998   Design  
Sign o' the Times
The origins of the neon OPEN sign.   		Michael Dolan   Mar 05, 1998   Design  
A House of One's Own
A women's magazine surveys its readers to design a model home.   		Alexandra Lange   Jan 07, 1998   Design  
Kettle Call
The challenge of designing a container for boiling water.   		Thomas Hine   Sep 11, 1997   Design  
Dead Eurocrats
The colorlessness of the European Community's money.   		Phil Patton   Feb 27, 1997   Design  

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