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Design 2003
The Way We Live Now
The Beast of Queens
By HUGO LINDGREN
If it's just about getting to the airport, do looks matter?

QUESTIONS FOR NIELS DIFFRIENT
A Machine for Sitting
A man who practiced ergonomics before it was called that argues for design that improves the human condition.

HOW TO
How ToThe Height of Ingenuity
By NORMAN VANAMEE
The problem: designing a cellphone tower that isn't an eyesore. Here are some solutions.

DOMAINS
Building a Better Bra Shop
By HOPE REEVES
A lingerie giant enlists a design firm to figure out a way to make buying bras less of a nightmare.

Recap RECAP
Hamming It Down in Japan
By SETH STEVENSON
The team stinks. The fans are losers. The mascot seems to be . . . a bird. Time for a total makeover for the Nippon-Ham Fighters.

SHOP TALK
What Would Jeannie Do?
Moderated by NED MARTEL
A panel of designers spend an afternoon channel-surfing and debating television's influence on popular taste, past, present and future.

CRASH COURSE
Color Cognition
By DIRK OLIN
The colors we see — are they out there or in our heads? Both, it's becoming clear.

The Ethicist
By RANDY COHEN
Forum: You're the Ethicist

On Language
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
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WHAT THEY WERE THINKING
What They Were Thinking
Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, Nov. 17, 2003
Photograph by Frank Schwere

PORTFOLIOS
Castles in the Sky, by Neal Slavin.
Slide Show | About the Photographs

Year of the Horse, by Eugene Richards.
Slide Show | About the Photographs

Water's Edge, by Massimo Vitale.
Slide Show

Moment of Silence, by Gueorgui Pinkhassov.
Slide Show

Warrior Women, by Dan Winters.
Slide Show

Focus, by Robert Maxwell.
Slide Show

Dream House, by Gregory Crewdson.
Slide Show | Behind the Scenes

In Country, by William Eggleston.
Slide Show

40th Reunion, by Brigitte Lacombe.
Slide Show

AUDIO SLIDE SHOWS/VIDEO

Deborah Solomon on John Currin's body of work.
Audio Slide Show | Article

Clips from the forthcoming documentary "Sentenced Home."
Video | Article

Terrence Rafferty on a film festival's buzz.
Audio Slide Show | Article

Gary Shtyengart on New York, then and now.
Audio Slide Show | Article

Arthur Lubow on how Spain is the new France.
Audio Slide Show | Article



Design 2003Inspiration: Where Does It Come From?
By ARTHUR LUBOW
The most impressive designs are those that seem naturally right, unimprovable, inevitable. Go to Article

The Seeds of InspirationThe Seeds of Inspiration
The team of Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker, principals in the design firm KarlssonWilker, were asked to investigate the evolution of seven designs they found curious and intriguing. Some of the subjects will be familiar, others less so, but all illuminate the mysteries of the creative process. Go to Slide Show

The Guts of a New Machine
By ROB WALKER
The iPod became an instant classic by combining high design and powerful technology. But as Apple has learned before, that formula alone doesn't keep you on top. Go to Article

Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
By PAGAN KENNEDY
The greatest design achievements, according to an innovative teacher at M.I.T., ought to save lives and cost next to nothing. Go to Article

Vote GettersVote Getters
By GAIL COLLINS
In posters and buttons, leading designers make a visual statement for each of the major Democratic presidential candidates. Go to Article
Slide Show: The Posters
Forum: Suggest your political slogans for the candidates.

The Shape of Jackets to Come
By LYNN HIRSCHBERG
To create a new world of clothing, Olivier Theyskens started with the gentlest of notions — a new silhouette. Go to Article

Auldbrass Wasn't Rebuilt in a Day
By MATT LEE and TED LEE
When the Hollywood producer Joel Silver stumbled on a forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece in South Carolina, he found an obsession to consume a lifetime. Go to Article

Flying in the Face of Mediocrity
By JONATHAN DEE
A boutique airline called Song hired the handbag designer Kate Spade to put style in the sky. Now if only the flight attendants would stop cracking jokes. Go to Article

In the Beginning, There Was Leather. . . .In the Beginning, There Was Leather. . . .
By LYNN HIRSCHBERG
Photographs by CHRIS ANDERSON
All that goes into the birth of one perfect little Hermès bag. Go to Slide Show

Clouds in Her Coffee
By JON GERTNER
For the artist Tara Donovan, epiphanies come in the most mundane forms, like pencils, paper plates and white foam coffee cups. Go to Article

To Draw a Bridge
By ADAM SACHS
Santiago Calatrava's vision to span a divide in Jerusalem began, as all his work does, with a long and varied life on paper. Go to Article




Style
FOOD
FoodSpecial Delivery
By SAM SIFTON
In designing a new dish, a chef is as inspired by chance as by choice.


ENDPAPER
Not Under the Tree This Year
By AUSTIN BUNN
What does it take to make a successful toy? A graveyard.

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Above: Some of the elements of inspiration for the Selfridges store (see 'The Seeds of Inspiration'). Photographs by Mikako Koyama for The New York Times. Prop stylist: Megan Caponetto. Paco Rabanne sequin/ring dress kit (top left) courtesy of Doyle New York.
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