From brick to banana: The Nokia Design Archive traces two decades of iconic devices

When people talk about the design of a phone, or of most other objects, they are usually referring to how they look, but that is only a fraction of what it will have contributed. It is thanks to the process of analysis, visualization, planning and execution, which we call design, that breakthroughs in scientific research are translated into product... See more

Design has evolved to meet the challenge of the new relationship between people and the material goods they need. Today, designers — artisans, manufacturers, engineers, architects — think far beyond the way things look. Comparing pre-industrial design to post-industrial design with a picture is absurd. Critiquing a modern object based on its appear... See more