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 ...

The newly opened, much-ballyhooed Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Gehry, is the latest example of function following rather than determining form. Gehry's work is admired ...

If you've been missing the early days of HTML5, back when experimentation, not stolid, functional sites was the name of the game, we've got a site for you: Form Follows Function. Form Follows ...

The father of the skyscraper, patriarch of modernism, coiner of everyone's favorite design phrase, "form (ever) follows function," was born on this day in 1856. Though less well-known than other ...