Grand Hornu Images shows Martí Guixé's fire-based work

June 27, 2008. Until October 5, the Grand Hornu Images gallery in Grand Hornu, Belgium will exhibit the Park Life designs of Spaniard Martí Guixé, all based around fire, in a show called Open-End. Guixé explains how the fiery Park Life objects "reconsider everyday life as a luxury leisure sport ... Photography Inga Knölke/Imagekontainer

GSM as Terrorist concept by Laury van Eerd.

June 25, 2008. On June 20, Onamatopee Press and Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands published a book called Jurkjes & Jason, examining local, and student, perceptions of terror and terrorism today...

Richard Sennett, a sociologist at New York University and the London School of Economics, builds the case for craft as not merely productive but also engrossing and ennobling.

May 7, 2008. I.D. interviews Ben Wittner and Sascha Thomas about their book Arabesque, out now from German publisher Die Gestalten Verlag. "Openness to experimentation with script is what makes Arabic and also Persian design so special, and it's also what made us fall in love with it." ...

April 30, 2008. I.D. interviews Lisa Mahar, owner of the New York toy and furniture store Kid O, about her new house line of toys debuting in July: "The illustrations have incredible quality and workmanship, they convey my respect for children’s ability to understand the subtleties of the world," she says ...

Ned Hill and Daniel Cuffaro teamed up to create a full-service design district that they hope will transform downtown Cleveland into the new hub of American product development.

April 16, 2008. I.D. interviews Alastair Gordon about his forthcoming book, Spaced Out: Crash Pads, Hippie Communes, Infinity Machines, and Other Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties. "I had colleagues, other journalists, who said, ‘Why do you want to dredge up that hippie crap?’" ...

Sherry Turkle brings special insight into the tender relationship between mind and inanimate matter.

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, 57, began his career as a conceptual artist before drifting into photography. But he became famous for his deep immersion in the medium.

When GARY HUSTWIT, 42, tells people he's made a documentary about Helvetica, he gets baffled looks. Sure, it's a modernist icon, and yes, it's ubiquitous, but a movie?