Worth it in part

Aaron Koblin's practice connects data visualization with participation and digital media.

Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf made mesh the defining material of Herman Miller's 1994 office chair.

Isamu Noguchi adapted Gifu lantern-making to electric light and sculptural form.

Anthony Dunne's collaboration with Fiona Raby connects design practice, writing and teaching.

Rob Janoff's bitten apple retained its outline through changing colour treatments.

Athos Bulcão's career connects painting and sculpture with the construction of Brasília.

Bořek Šípek provides a route into expressive form and the relationship between design and public memory.

Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot's radio-phonograph puts a transparent lid over domestic audio equipment.

The Braun T3 offers a compact case study in the relationship between a handheld enclosure and its controls.

Sori Yanagi gives each curved wooden half of the Butterfly Stool both a seat and a leg.

Root Glass developed the contour bottle through a team effort led by a distinctive packaging brief.

Frank Mason Robinson connected a product name with the flowing forms of Spencerian script.

Robert Venturi uses architectural examples to argue for complexity in composition.

Courier New shows how transferring a typewriter face to a digital font can change its apparent weight.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp's painted wooden head connects craft training with geometric abstraction.

Deborah Berke connects architectural practice with a sustained commitment to design education.

Charles and Ray Eames developed a children's elephant alongside their experiments in moulded plywood.

Ellen van Loon's work at OMA spans cultural institutions, workplaces and public buildings.

Emigre made experimental digital typography part of a magazine's content and business.

Lindon Leader's FedEx wordmark makes the space between two letters carry an arrow.

Fiona Raby brings architectural training, research and collaborative practice to speculative design.

FontShop's publishing and distribution history connects independent type design with a growing digital market.

Frederick Kiesler connected stage, exhibition and architectural design through the relationship between people and space.

Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi's Monte Amiata complex treats housing as a fragment of a city.

Giancarlo Piretti's furniture offers a focused route into the design of folding and everyday seating.

Henrique Mindlin combined architectural practice with teaching and the documentation of Brazilian modernism.

Shiro Kuramata uses steel mesh to give an armchair a nearly transparent volume.

Paul Rand's eight-bar IBM mark makes reproduction part of the design problem.

Inge Aicher-Scholl helped build the educational institutions behind postwar Ulm design.

Joost Schmidt's Bauhaus career connects lettering, sculpture and graphic design education.

Jurgen Bey's practice extends from furniture to interiors and public space.

Marcel Wanders turns a knotted textile into a rigid chair through composite materials.

An adjustable reclining chair whose authorship deserves as much attention as its silhouette.

Marc Newson's Lockheed Lounge puts riveted aluminium over a curved fibreglass body.

Bruce Mau and the Institute without Boundaries used an exhibition and book to examine design at the scale of systems.

A modular storage system makes industrial plastic adaptable to different rooms and uses.

Coop Himmelb(l)au's Lyon museum places an expressive steel-and-glass building at the meeting of two rivers.

Danne and Blackburn's 1975 NASA logotype turns four letters into a compact graphic identity.

The Washington museum connects a layered exterior with historical references and the demands of a major collection.

Noto Sans Arabic combines an unmodulated design with the requirements of Arabic text shaping.

Cyrillic support belongs to Noto Sans's coordinated Latin, Greek and Cyrillic family.

Noto Sans Devanagari brings an unmodulated approach to a script that depends on complex text shaping.

Noto Sans Hebrew provides an unmodulated family for a writing system with letters, positional forms and marks.

Noto's Japanese sans family coordinates kana, kanji and additional scripts within one typographic resource.

Otmar Alt's career crosses painting, graphic work, sculpture and public campaigns.

Art Paul's rabbit-head silhouette developed from a magazine endnote into a brand emblem.

Zaha Hadid's gallery conversion connects an 1805 gunpowder magazine with a new restaurant extension.

Raymond Loewy's 1971 revision gives Shell's scallop emblem a strongly defined graphic form.

Shoei Yoh's work connects furniture, glass and timber buildings with experiments in architectural form.

Libenský's glass work is best understood through his sustained partnership with sculptor Jaroslava Brychtová.

Steve Krug connects practical web-usability advice with do-it-yourself testing.

Saarinen's pedestal tables apply a shared structural idea across a room of furniture.

Ross Lovegrove's water bottle brings a disposable packaging object into the design museum.