Fast Company

Form Follows Function, Right? Not So Fast.

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 time ...
The Washington Post

When Function Follows Form, the Result Can Be Innovative Architecture

Are you dissatisfied with the size, shape and arrangement of rooms in your home or workplace? Even so, whoever designed the buildings undoubtedly intended to satisfy your functional needs. Further, ...
Network World

Data Center design: Form follows function

American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: “Form follows function.” That adage is also vital to data center ...
MediaPost

Function Follows Form

Form follows function is the gist of the functionalist philosophy of design. The concept is that you probably can't use a computer monitor as a fork and vice versa. So, the design of something should ...
Bisnow

For Successful Open Office Design, Form Follows Function

The utopian image of productive, social employees that open office once conjured has not met expectations. While the elimination of private offices in favor of communal workstations has cut costs, in ...
ZDNet

Effective collaboration: Form follows function?

Harvard Business School's Andrew McAfee has been doing a compelling job lately describing the use of Web 2.0-style collaboration techniques in the enterprise. He calls this Enterprise 2.0 and has been ...
Fast Company

Form Follows Function, Right? Not So Fast.

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 time ...