DISRUPTIVE / DESIGN & CULTURE
Department · Form follows function
Design & Culture: how exceptional things are made.
Objects with intent: industrial design features on products and systems designed with rigor — process, materials, decisions. And the wider story: how technology is changing the arts, beliefs, and institutions surrounding us.
Caspian Reed, Staff Writer — design & culture
The assignment — what each desk covers, and who covers it.
The desks
The assignment.
Product Design & Engineering
Objects with intent: industrial design features on products and systems designed with rigor — process, materials, decisions.
Caspian Reed, Staff Writer — design & culture
Culture & Technology
How technology is changing the arts, beliefs, and institutions surrounding us.
Caspian Reed, Staff Writer — design & culture
From the desk
The latest stories.
Stories from this desk — newest first.
Design · Retrospective · North America · Cupertino
The iPod at Twenty-Five: The Object That Taught Apple Everything
On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs promised “1,000 songs in your pocket.” The device wasn’t the first MP3 player. It was the first one that understood the system.
Design · Evergreen · Global · the trade system
The Box That Shrank the World: How the Container Remade Trade
The most disruptive object of the twentieth century is a steel box with no moving parts. Its inventor wasn’t a sailor — he was a trucker who hated waiting.
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