Typeface designers mix art, engineering
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What it looked like was not so much an alphabet but a masquerade ball for 26 capital letters that had arrived early, stayed late and gotten into the good liquor.
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As console makers gear up to ship their next-generation boxes, game designers look for new routes to success.
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This manufacturing company replaces a lot of large, high-speed printers in the factory and decides to lease instead of buy. One key requirement: They must be PostScript compatible.
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If you attended last week's Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you probably weren't on the lookout for ways to become a better typist. This is MIT, after all -- Rocket Science Central. Couldn't they offer something more challenging?
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Too much of a good thing, as 221 designers show, simultaneously.
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âPrayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptychâ at the National Gallery of Art brings art historians and art conservators together in a project that is part salvage mission and part detective story.
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Customized cars that use commercial logos as a creative palette.
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The traditional pattern shakes its fussy image as designers give it a new look
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Biomimicry, interaction and do-it-yourself initiative ride the forefront of U.S. design, says a new exhibit. Michael Myser gets a sneak peek at the Design Life Now triennial at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt in New York City.
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The artists at a Swedish design firm experiment with "drawing" personalized furniture in a room space. The invisible lines are captured by a camera, computerized and the sketches are translated into 3-D digital files and materialized through Rapid Prototyping.
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This contract manufacturer is flexing its muscles.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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Cascading Style Sheets are an important element of current web design. Today, Lee Underwood examines Westciv's Style Master, an application dedicated to the creation and tweaking of Style Sheets. 0705
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Apple fans, industry experts and even PC users like the look of the Mac mini.
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This week you'll learn about solid software design practices, many of them borrowed from working with Windows applications. The result is the development of a Web based drawing package. By Guyon Roche. 0802
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Academics and game designers are working on ways to make games that are fun but have a serious bent too.
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A sprinkling of architects and designers around the world are working to greatly change hospitals by humanizing their design.