![Design 2003](index_files/30cover.jpg) ![Inspiration: Where Does It Come From?](index_files/designintro-hed.gif) By ARTHUR LUBOW The most impressive designs are those that seem naturally right, unimprovable, inevitable. Go to Article![The Seeds of Inspiration](index_files/30port.jpg) ![The Seeds of Inspiration](index_files/designport-hed.gif) The
team of Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker, principals in the design firm
KarlssonWilker, were asked to investigate the evolution of seven
designs they found curious and intriguing. Some of the subjects will be
familiar, others less so, but all illuminate the mysteries of the
creative process. Go to Slide Show
![The Guts of a New Machine](index_files/ipod-hed.gif) By ROB WALKER The
iPod became an instant classic by combining high design and powerful
technology. But as Apple has learned before, that formula alone doesn't
keep you on top. Go to Article
![Necessity Is the Mother of Invention](index_files/mit-hed.gif) By PAGAN KENNEDY The greatest design achievements, according to an innovative teacher at M.I.T., ought to save lives and cost next to nothing. Go to Article
![Vote Getters](index_files/30poster.jpg) ![Vote Getters](index_files/posters-hed.gif) By GAIL COLLINS In posters and buttons, leading designers make a visual statement for each of the major Democratic presidential candidates. Go to Article • Slide Show: The Posters • Forum: Suggest your political slogans for the candidates.
![The Shape of Jackets to Come](index_files/theyskens-hed.gif) By LYNN HIRSCHBERG To create a new world of clothing, Olivier Theyskens started with the gentlest of notions — a new silhouette. Go to Article
![Auldbrass Wasn't Rebuilt in a Day](index_files/wright-hed.gif) By MATT LEE and TED LEE When
the Hollywood producer Joel Silver stumbled on a forgotten Frank Lloyd
Wright masterpiece in South Carolina, he found an obsession to consume
a lifetime. Go to Article
![Flying in the Face of Mediocrity](index_files/song-hed.gif) By JONATHAN DEE A
boutique airline called Song hired the handbag designer Kate Spade to
put style in the sky. Now if only the flight attendants would stop
cracking jokes. Go to Article
![In the Beginning, There Was Leather. . . .](index_files/30hermes.jpg) ![In the Beginning, There Was Leather. . . .](index_files/hermes-hed.gif) By LYNN HIRSCHBERG Photographs by CHRIS ANDERSON All that goes into the birth of one perfect little Hermès bag. Go to Slide Show
![Clouds in Her Coffee](index_files/tara-hed.gif) By JON GERTNER For the artist Tara Donovan, epiphanies come in the most mundane forms, like pencils, paper plates and white foam coffee cups. Go to Article
![To Draw a Bridge](index_files/calatrava-hed.gif) By ADAM SACHS Santiago Calatrava's vision to span a divide in Jerusalem began, as all his work does, with a long and varied life on paper. Go to Article
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