The Design 100

Style & Design

Today's Most Influential Design

Great design is no longer reserved solely for museum-worthy products, as multitasking designers turn their attention to everything from books to artisanal food, and from lighting to transportation

Architecture

Imagination and innovative engineering are the key ingredients for these dramatic structures going up around the globe

Hotels

From the reinvention of a New York classic to the floating Manned Cloud blimp, the hospitality industry is a locus of new design

Retail

More than ever, fashion and design stores are becoming necessary global manifestations of a particular brand's stylistic DNA

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10 Questions: Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner

By Deirdre van Dyk

Matthew Weiner, the creator of the award-winning TV series Mad Men, talks to Deirdre van Dyk about how today reflects the 1960s, the golden age of design and time travel

Star Power

By Betsy Kroll

Both on and off the court, Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars have become a part of the pop-culture pantheon, loved by fans with a penchant for casual cool

Crème of the Crop

By Betsy Kroll

Kiehl's may be global now, but it hasn't strayed from the simple, efficacious products that made it famous