What is design? What makes it distinct from art, science, or engineering? The editors of this site decide dozens of times a day what is or isn’t “design.” But is it ultimately subjective, or can it be ...

If you need proof that customers have strong feelings about the simplest visual branding symbols, let Exhibit A be a solid blue box behind three white letters. When retail apparel giant Gap decided to ...

There’s no one right way to go about product design. Many methodologies exist, and many of them are good ones. But there are a few elements of product design that are too often neglected in the ...

Contemporary interior style was a natural evolution of midcentury-modern aesthetics and was first coined as its own term around the 1970s. Signifying a mix of predominant styles at the time, it ...

Not unlike Dallas itself, Dallas’ design identity is hard to put neatly in a box. We’re antiques and neon signs. We’re prim and proper meets bougie and bold. We are mavericks who prefer to blaze our ...