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GOOD Guide: R. Buckminster Fuller (5 of 6)
What the Buck Was He Talking About?: If some of Fuller's concepts seem obscure, it may have more to do with the terminology than the ideas themselves.
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GOOD Guide: R. Buckminster Fuller (4 of 6)
Guinea Pigs and Billionaires: Underpinning all of Fuller's work was the steady hum of optimism.
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GOOD Guide: R. Buckminster Fuller (3 of 6)
Where's My Floating City?: Fuller came up with thousands of ideas that never even got to the prototype stage.
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GOOD Guide: R. Buckminster Fuller (2 of 6)
Dymaxion: Wave of the Future: Fuller designed a car, a house, a world map, and a new sport.
Design
GOOD Guide: R. Buckminster Fuller
"How can we make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological...
Design
Better-Than-It-Has-to-Be Design
The words "good" and "design" share a complicated history. Since the Museum of Modern Art's "Good Design" exhibitions and initiatives of the...
Environment
How Do We Not Trash the Place?
Rapid innovation has sometimes come at the expense of long-term sustainability, so we now must find creative solutions to our past mistakes,...
Design
How Do We Stay Safe?
Good design helps keep us safe, and can even save lives.
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How Do We Work with the Machines?
Now that nearly every household object employs complex electrical inner workings, the importance of simplified interfaces is paramount.
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How Do We Understand Each Other?
Navigating the world's linguistic babble has been one of the great feats of design.
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How Do We Make Our Mark?
Methods and styles of writing have routinely been subject to the vicissitudes of technology, even before the digital revolution.
Design
How Do We Know What's Up?
Never before have so many channels competed for our waning attention. The world is coming to us in print, on television, on the internet, and...
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Education by Design
The newest developments in green school design put as much emphasis on education as on sustainability. Eva Steele-Saccio examines this growing trend.
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Michaelangelo Matos on Magazine Archives
Michaelangelo Matos on Magazine Archives
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Matthew Dessem on the Ancient Art of List Making
Matthew Dessem on the Ancient Art of List Making
Design
Real World Studio
Main Street in Greensboro, Alabama, feels abandoned. Not just empty-it's as though half the shopkeepers up and left at the end of a business...
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The Mormons Are Coming!
Each year, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sends 20,000 missionaries around the world. These highly devout Mormon youth are...
Environment
Steal This Idea: Better CFL Packaging
Here is an idea to help boost the sales of compact fluorescent lights, and to make sure consumers recycle their burned-out CFLs.
