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& Fork , the sequel to Phaidon's influential coffee-table tome Spoon offers a look at 100 of the design stars of tomorrow
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Innovation often arises out of crossing disciplines and combining technologies. That's a focus of our look for the top cutting-edge designers
Here are 10 professionals that are expanding the realm of design by using knowledge from other disciplines
Sometimes a company has to go outside its R&D department and tap outside experts. NineSigma CEO Paul Stiros describes how it works
Ad agency Anomaly is pioneering a new model whereby it provides its creative services in return for a take of the profits. It's a high-risk strategy that could change the industry
Slide Show: An Anomaly in the Ad Business
By connecting riders and drivers online at Facebook, Robin Chase hopes to make carpooling the hip, socially conscious way to get around
Slide Show: Hitching a Ride for Earth's Sake
To offer a prosthetic foot with greater stability, Hilmar Janusson and his colleagues used innovative software and artificial intelligence
Slide Show: Revolutionizing Prosthetics Design
To break the cycle of waste, Britain's champion of sustainable design seeks to turn plastic into the ultimate recyclable material
Slide Show: A New Shape for Recycling
Novint turned to Lunar Design to transform a $20,000 engineering device into a $239 video game controller—with an eye on the medical training market
Slide Show: How Lunar Design Made PC Games More Tactile
The Open Architecture Network shows how new collaborative technologies can transform industries and projects worldwide
Slide Show: Open Architecture Network Unlocks Doors
We interface with the award-winning information designer, who explains how her radical approach to data visualization incorporates real space and cyberspace
Slide Show: I See What You Mean
At Big Blue, Martin Wattenberg is developing leading-edge projects to bolster the ability to read, share, and understand data in new ways
Slide Show: The Wizard of Information Visualization
As a pioneer of standards-based design, he helped end the browser wars and made Web sites available to all
Slide Show: Keeping Up Appearances
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