In my first week of studying industrial design in college one of my professors turned to the class, and while holding and pointing to a hammer, he said "form follows function." That was the first time ...

Everyone thinks they understand good design, and while we all understand our tastes, there’s more to making a product well designed than just making it pretty. Form and function have to combine to ...

In the wake of last Tuesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in the “smartphone wars” design patent dispute, the justices must decide if a 130-year old law provision (35 U.S.C. §289) means that Apple can ...

Whether it’s a building, logo, website, or software, good design is easy to recognise. Most people may not realise that good design has just as much to do with how something works as it does with how ...

"In product design, form and function are totally integrated; neither one follows the other. All materials have their nature; some are malleable like glass or steel, whereas some, like marble, are not ...