Flipping through a design magazine, he noticed a house in Miami Beach that the designer Luis Pons had turned into a modernist tropical villa, with starkly geometric forms encircled by lush vegetation.
And second, it attains that success through a design that's all Microsoft's own.
For Vanuatu to access the funds they must go through a design and tender process approved by the World Bank.
She is quiet and intense, and uncompromising in her determination to carry through a design to the smallest detail.
The show is tasteful and sometimes pleasing, but ultimately about as exciting as paging through a design magazine.
The Alberses possessed this kind of ruthlessness, an ability to think through a design to a solution that seems both inevitable and interesting, locked in yet still breathing.
What they didn't say: No mention of the old-but-new Mazda 2 already being halfway through a design cycle in the rest of the world.
But despite the high-tone interview subjects and visual references the show is unsparingly vapid, about as exciting as paging through a design magazine.
It works largely with low-income families struggling to rebuild their home following a disaster, providing them with a rapid-response core house structure, moving them through a design process that shapes the house to their needs as well as forming local partnerships to ensure whole teams are in place when disaster hits.
LONDON — A few years ago, whenever you checked out a design blog, leafed through a design magazine, scanned the speakers at a design conference, or spotted a roster of design award winners, one name almost always appeared – One Laptop per Child.
A complete calibration and analysis through a Design Of Experiments (DOE) approach is carried out.
