Then what happens to them, and all the other stuff we accumulate? That is the topic of Adam Minter ... stimulated by the post-war boom years and a love of the new in design and fashion. “Hoarding ...

Now Oneida has made the stuff even easier to get--reintroducing the iconic line of pottery and flatware. They're the original shapes, only larger to accommodate our hungrier selves. And to help ...

Lyse Martel has spent her career thinking about how color and materials can shape a person's experience of an object.

Technology lives or dies by its design. We can waffle about specs until we’re blue in the face, but the fact of the matter is, all the octa-core processors in the world won’t make a difference if they ...

Industrial design goes far beyond the outside shape of a product—it dictates the cost and assembly methods as well. This could turn into a fiasco. The 1980 pickup truck redesign I worked on had ...

Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown visits the Denver Museum of Art's U.S. Design 1975-2000, a retrospective of developments in American design over the last quarter-century. Sometimes a chair is ...

“So much stuff is coming into our homes this time of year, along with pressure to be jolly,” said Chicago-based professional organizer Sarah Parisi of the Clutter Curator. “It’s a natural ...

After all robots can decorate cakes, play the piano, and even design and build other robots. The next sign of our obsolescence comes from the University of Pennsylvania, where researchers have ...