Form follows function is the gist of the functionalist philosophy of design. The concept is that you probably can't use a computer monitor as a fork and vice versa. So, the design of something should ...

In my first week of studying industrial design in college one of my professors turned to the class, and while holding and pointing to a hammer, he said "form follows function." That was the first time ...

As engineers we perhaps like to think that, if form does follows function, then a design will be correct. While in many cases that may be true, it may be with automobiles that function may need some ...