How Unique Must a Design be to Get a Patent?

A new frontier in patent history is being battled in the courts as Apple defends its patents for the designs for the iPhone and iPad. NPR Artilce: Samsung Fight Among Many in Apple's Patent NyTimes Article: Apple-Samsung Trial Highlights

Apples Wins a Billion Dollar Verdit: What Does it Mean?

Infographic that Help End Slavery

The drawing became a key visual weapon in the 18th- and 19th-century fight against slavery, information design that changes minds.

Fast Company Article

Architect Frank Gehry – Part 1

Architect Frank Gehry – Part 1

Architect Frank Gehry – Part 2

Architect Frank Gehry – Part 2

Consumer Product: Omega Juicer

When a product addresses the issues around its use from ease of use, performing it function well, its construction and choice of materials to ease of clean-up it should be applauded. In this case the Omega fruit and vegetable juice fills the bill.

Omega's Website A Guide to Storing Fruits and Vegetables

Audio: The Digital Democracy of Sound

Digital technology has changed how we find, make and listen to music. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation investigates in an eight part series how electricity change the way we experience music. The Wire Episode 8

Automobile Design: Renault's Twizy Win Design Award

The vehicles of the future are appearing more often as the variety of electric cars finds its place among high end and low end offerings.

NYTimes Article

History of the Olympic Logo

The internationally recognized five interconnected rings signifying the unity of humankind, according to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, a French aristocrat who designed the symbol for the 20th anniversary of the Games.

NYTimes Article: Who Made the Olympic Rings? More History of the Rings