A railway looks like the most rigid thing in the landscape: steel lines running dead straight to the horizon, apparently welded to the earth. The reality underneath is the opposite,…
The round cover is a famous interview question with a famous answer, and the famous answer is correct but incomplete. Roundness solves one problem extremely well. The lid is solving…
Almost everyone pictures an anchor as a heavy thing dropped on the bottom, holding a boat by sheer mass. If that were how it worked, no ship could carry an…
Corrugated board is one of those inventions so completely ordinary that it is hard to see as an invention at all. Something like a hundred billion boxes are made from…
There is a container that solves several problems at once, which is why it lasted for two thousand years and why nothing replaced it until very recently.
The problems are…
There is a way of making things that works from the inside out, and it produces shapes no other method can.
Almost every other approach is subtractive or formative: material…