Design

Apple’s products have always been about finding joy: joy in the creative process, joy in the user experience, and—of course—joy in the community, regardless of technical proficiency. A typesetter by trade, my mother brought our first Apple Macintosh computer—I’m dating…

Though embroiled in numerous political controversies, this year’s World Cup global soccer tournament will still be a celebration of global cooperation and cultural exchange, if not also some mostly harmless competition. The major event—being held across the vast territory of…

Rapid prototyping — now more commonly known as 3D printing — has been around for a while now. At industrial scale, it’s become increasingly agile and refined, harnessing a growing range of materials and replicating manual or mechanized processes. With…

“Traditional lighting serves a purely functional role—it helps us see,” says Ran Hu, lighting designer and co-founder of recently established Seattle studio MIRORLab. “When we notice light in everyday life, on leaves, on water, or in those quiet, simple reflections,…

The transition of an analog tool into a digital device doesn’t mean its design has to drastically change; take on novel form even if the technology allows for it. Unlike how LEDs have radically shifted the shape of lighting (it…