The "American system" of mass production, successfully implemented during the mid-1800s, was characterized by the large-scale manufacture of standardized products with interchangeable parts. Much different than the individualized hand...

Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved for marketability and production. The role of an Industrial Designer is to create and execute design solutions towards problems of engineering,...

Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.Schreckengost died Saturday while visiting family in Tallahassee, Fla., said Brenda Jackson of the Viktor...

Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.Schreckengost died Saturday while visiting family in Tallahassee, Fla., said Brenda Jackson of the Viktor...

On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated three city properties as landmarks. The first, shown here, is the Loew's Paradise Theater interior, at 2405-2419 Grand Concourse, in the Bronx. The John Eberson-design building was completed in September of 1929; it was one of five so-called...

Scandinavian design is known for its sleek modernism. But Lucky magazine, which has a monthly feature called "Shopping Report" that looks at retail, fashion and whatever else is for sale in a given destination, found a lot more in Copenhagen than neutral colors and smooth...