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...They solved it for a while with walls that had etched surfaces; on a library in Germany, for example, they imprinted images by German photographer Thomas Ruff. But what really interests them is not applied decoration but the challenge of finding ways to make the structure and the surface design one. That was the old dream of architectural Modernism, which settled for lines of steel and glass up and down the front of a building. Herzog and de Meuron are always looking for something more complicated. For their first U.S. commission, a winery in Yountville, Calif., they constructed walls from...
When Meow Yee joined IBM in 1985, she did not receive a mentor, nor was she offered one over the next 20 years. Born in Malaysia and of Chinese origin, Yee was hired as a software developer and advanced to design in-house applications for IBM in Somers, N.Y. But like many other Asians, she felt stuck on a technology track. "There's this perception that technology is what we're good for," she says. "Opportunities are not really given unless you ask for them, and if you're a woman, I guess that's double." She worked hard...
...reporting on Apple Computer's innovative design process earned raves from the company's devoted customers, while our stories on the new products and services on the technological horizon prompted others to wonder about the dangers as well as the pleasures of the world awaiting...
...Steve Jobs should be commended for Apple Computer's superior work environment [Oct. 24], which embraces collaboration and control. Employees in different departments team up in a "simultaneous and organic" process to create amazing, innovative products. Apple has gone above and beyond its competitors in creative design. If more companies in today's technological industries worked harder to create a quality product for the consumer, success would be based not on profits alone but on the more important goal of user satisfaction...
...some stretching with scenes like the swirling panels of characters and events that culminate the climactic chapter. In another nice graphical touch, the lettering accompanying Steve's story becomes increasingly unsteady as he descends into the depths of paranoid schizophrenia. Personally I wish Tricked had more of such clever design elements. It seems something of a missed opportunity that all the story lines look the same...