How we interact with objects in the world often depends on what colors we perceive them to have, and on how those perceived colors accord with what we know to be the normal or 'canonical' colors of ...

Form and function are the legs on which Modern design has long stood. But a crop of new designers are turning this ethos on its head by creating objects that question the usefulness—or the lack ...

Physical geometry and optical properties of objects are correlated: cylinders focus light to a line, spheres to a point and arbitrarily shaped objects introduce optical aberrations. Multi-functional ...

“We are deeply into a golden age of TV. Yet the remote is the most vexing of all design objects: Its buttons have no tactile hierarchy, and it's black, so you can never find it in your couch cushions.