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2012
Design's hits and misses in 2012
'The Dom' of experimental typography
Making a virtue of necessity in the Orkney Islands
Design and its affects
Empowering Anfield to design a future
Setting the scene for television shows
Designing what and how we eat
China's craft revival
Gino Sarfatti: master of the light fitting
Can an airport sign offer more than guidance?
Why car lights are changing
Judging books by their covers
Tool or trophy? Utilitarian design and beauty
Colour's marriage of convenience with commerce
Making something out of nothing - Bruno Munari
Will the Istanbul Biennial be the toast of the autumn designfests?
Why I (kind of) like what may be my last BlackBerry
Carlo Scarpa's roots in the glassworks
Jean Prouvé - "anarchist in a good sense"
The knights of soccer
The subway map New Yorkers loved or hated
Cleaning up an off-grid kitchen
Responsibility v. desirability in design
Career advisor: available 24/7
Messing with Mother Nature
How the Arco became an unjust cliche
Henry Wilson on designing in Australia
When form trumps function
Who'd spend €55,000 on a lamp - except Didier Krzentowski?
Changing cases
A graphic definition of Italy
Cooking up a safer, cleaner stove
How to design a soup spoon
How signs tell us about their cities
The jokers of radical design
What happened at the Milan Furniture Fair
Salone del Mobile or Salone del Marketing?
All the fun of the world's fairs
Will ethics be Apple's Nemesis?
The race to design the first computer
Maria Pergay crosses the square
Richard Hollis and design economy
The rise and fall of the pocket calculator
How they lived in Villa Tugendhat
And the Oscar for "Best Film Titles" goes to...
The dos and don'ts of design nostalgia
The story behind Nendo
Design's fragile heritage
Designing around human frailty by Mathieu Lehanneur
Cracking the code
Design in 2012

2011
Design in 2011
Whatever happened to One Laptop Per Child?
The man who broke the record on Let it Bleed
The reign of the poster king
Making life a little easier
Designing a thoroughly modern protest movement
Getting into detail with Aldo Bakker
How Saul Bass turned movie titles into movie stars
What's in a name?
The decorative arts revival
Year one of Studio H
A decade of change for graphic design
The design marvel of the dry stone wall
Deciding what is - and isn't - design
Carlo Mollino: fact or fiction?
How much food can you grow in a very small space?
What was the point of postmodernism?
Rewarding design to improve life - INDEX: 2011
Design festivalmania
Humanising technology at Berg
The Futuro's search for a perfect form
Reponsibility v. desirability in design
The clunky PC that started it all
A new take on Italian design by Studio FormaFantasma
Talk, talk, talk and listen at MoMA
Checking in on Chinese design
Lady Templetown - a pioneering woman in design
The design merits and demerits of a dishwasher
The admirably eclectic Gio Ponti
Giving the personal touch to corporate logos
How Dieter Rams made Braun an It-brand
Is the design market growing up?
Ron Gilad - the reluctant designer
Victor Papanek: designer as rabblerouser
Let's hear it for quietly good design
From menace to mischief - the skull and crossbones
A taxonomical take on the office chair
And what happened at the Milan Furniture Fair
What's on at the Milan Furniture Fair?
Achille Castiglioni's magical studio
The typographic soap opera of New York's subway signs
Coming clean on dirt
Design gets more diverse
Crimes against design
Is design still a man's world?
When Desmond Paul Henry traded metaphysics for a machine
If there were an Oscar for film titles
How Isotype said more with pictures than words
Designing a graphic world
Joost Grootens's book on his (artless) books
Why MoMA is adding digital typefaces to its design collection
The pros and cons of color forecasting
Will "Sustainism" be design's next new "ism"?
Design in 2011

2010
Design in 2010
The magic of Thomas Heatherwick's D.I.Y. Christmas cards
What is it with all of those black rectangles?
Just my type
Why iPad publishing apps are a lost opportunity for design
Freeing form from function
Liu Zhizhi and the art of designing in China
The very personal world of Piero Fornasetti
Why espresso lovers are pro-pod or anti-pod
The best of the new design books
Why Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was Modernism's odd one out
Why Gyorgy Kepes time has finally come
When good design makes a (subtle) difference
The thoroughly modern Frankfurt Kitchen
Buckminster Fuller's dream machine
Design festival mania
Why are digital printers so badly designed?
Alessandro Mendini on the things that make Italy so Italian
Life lessons in design at Studio H
Why we love the hidden heroes of design
Why big isn't necessarily best for books
The life and times of a humanitarian designer
Why has design gone country?
What are the world's best design stores?
The earthier side of Charlotte Perriand
Why everyone can (sort of) design these days
Design's winners and losers at the World Cup
Artificial reality in glass
Designing a brighter future
Feast and famine in the design market
Sometimes design can be luscious, sexy and fun
Mapping the rich and poor in London
Why design now? Same question different answers
The bespoke bicycle
Quietly good design
Why design should tell the truth
Milan - under the volcano
What's on at the Milan Furniture Fair?
Why green isn't always green
Why I haven't learnt to love the London 2012 logo
Why @ equals great design for MoMA
From lab to life with Joris Laarman
Reinventing the car
And the Oscar (for best-designed credits) goes to...
A brush with mediocrity
Vitra's latest architectural gem
Sailing with a clean eco-conscience
Debating sustainable design at Davos
The curse of over-complicated design
Hella Jongerius's color crusade
Type purists take on the pixel
And the hottest new product is...

2009
Design in the last decade
The strange simplicity of Peter Miles
Digital design - past, present and future
Why punctuate a corporate logo?
The Double Dutch take on design
Konstantin Grcic's take on relational design
Is a love of typography a boon or a bane?
The latest episode of One Laptop Per Child
A forgotten Bauhäuslerin - Margarete Heymann
Why do electric cars look so boring?
Moholy-Nagy coming out from the shadows
How the Boyms became the insiders' outsiders
Redesigning daily life
Changing design by Tim Brown
'Tis but the season for design festivals
From the race track on to the road
Emily Pilloton's design revolution
Winning ways of designing a better world
Why British design isn't what it used to be
Should design be left to designers?
Why are kettles so badly designed?
Design gems on the Web
The many faces of the Bauhaus
What the pit stop means for design
Telling tales at the V&A
Design and disability
Liberating computing from computers - Potion
What the "claw" means to 90,000 U2 fans
Happy 60th birthday to the Eames House
Artists in designers' clothing
The demise of "form follows function"
Designing down sick leave
Let's hear it for quiet design
When safety and comfort really count
Carlo Mollino and the dark art of seduction
A few gems amid Milan's flotsam
What to expect from the Milan Furniture Fair
A design coup - despite itself
Reinventing innovation
Hella Jongerius - taking design personally
Design on screen
Tripping back to psychedelia
How television made America modern
Designing concepts that work - Julia Lohmann
Why we still love Concorde
The pros and (mostly) cons of plastic windows
Today's take on constructivism
Good design/bad design at Davos
How design has given us friskier thumbs
Designing better health care
Martino Gamper and the art of improvisation
Remembering Barney Bubbles

2008
Designing with disrespect - the Bouroullecs
Design in 2009
Design in 2008
Can Londoners learn to love a new bus?
Design's next big thing - visualisation
"Design-art" feels the crunch
Ron Arad - the accidental design-art star
Ron Arad - the accidental "design-art" star
Designing in hard times
The chair that has seated millions
Enzo Mari - rebel with a flair for form
Leapfrogging design convention in China
Why designers want to lose control
Ken Adam's theatre of the real
The good, the bad and the ugly of web design
Why Apple and Ann Summers make a very odd couple
What's on at the London Design Festival?
George Nelson - redesigning a reputation
Solving a superjumbo jigsaw puzzle
What is design?
Designing our way out of the water crisis
Let's give it up for Eco-Starck
Design and change
Redesigning the decorative arts
Isamu Noguchi's "restless wanderers"
Why are cars so badly designed?
Li Edelkoort on leaving "utopia"
The rehabilitation of Richard Buckminster Fuller
Snacking on wit - Martí Guixé
What is good design?
Parking tickets, tax inspections - and "design-art"
Redesigning a rougher, tougher future
Forget the $100 laptop, now it's $75
Bidding on a modernist masterpiece
The surprising restraint of BarberOsgerby
In praise of quietly good design
Survivalism at the Milan Furniture Fair
What's on at the Milan Furniture Fair
Brand Obama - winning the presidential design race
Making life more complicated
Going back in time to create contemporary antiques
A little less megalomania in games design
Designed in China
What is it with architects and furniture?
Helping the poor to help themselves
The new elasticity in design
Designing for democracy
Setting the scene - Stefan Beckman
What Stefan Sagmeister has learned in his life so far
Debating the future of design at Davos
Designing with "total disrespect" - the Bouroullecs
Playing graphic games with M/M
How do you follow Ettore Sottsass?

2007
Design in 2008
Design in 2007
The tale of a teapot
Is this the chair of the year?
Luck and judgment at the Bauhaus
Whatever happened to the espresso machine?
Once upon a time London Transport got it right
Wishful thinking about art and design
Lament for a lost design classic - the Royalton
Lighting the future
Sustaining the past and present at Artek
A stringed instrument for the 21st century
The uses and misuses of design-art
The uses and misuses of "Design Art"
Muriel Cooper - design's unsung heroine
What's Arne Jacobsen doing in McDonald's?
Love it or loathe it, Memphis is back
What's on at the London Design Festival
Ingo Maurer and the magic of light
What's right for right now?
The return of the roundabout
Death of a design icon - the chair
The whimsical world of Jaime Hayon
Mr Moss goes to Los Angeles
When everything in the garden isn't rosy
Making the most of a Graphic Thought Facility
Unravelling everyday enigmas
Setting a limit to the edition
Has the iPhone got 'it'?
Marc Newson's spaceplane
Design by intuition - Naoto Fukasawa
Opening up the Glass House
The fine art of subtitle design
Design under the gavel
Design's size crisis
John Maeda and design's digital revolution
Design for the other 90%
Milan's super-sized furniture fair
What's on at the Milan Furniture Fair
Why is so much design so bad?
50 years of Helvetica
Surrealism at the V&A
Irma Boom's quest for the beautiful book
Empowering humanitarian design
Niklaus Troxler and designing for jazz
Designing how to use it
The odd appeal of stamp design
The constantly changing corporate logo
The world's most popular chair
How sustainable is design?
Design v. Art
New York's new street designs
Why everything will be black - glossy black

2006