Utility patents are for functional inventions. Design patents protect the look of something functional, regardless of whether the functional aspects are new. Because of this, a popular use of design ...

Tens of millions of people around the world are blind. But more than a hundred million may have serious vision impairment. And that second figure is only bound to grow, according to the World Health ...

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The American health care system is mind-bogglingly cruel and cryptic. When Parker Jones found herself trying to read countless medical documents, she teamed up with Rajshree Saraf to reverse-engineer ...

Customized Typeface for Lebanon’s An-Nahar Newspaper Debuts in its Redesign Country’s Leading Newspaper Enlists Linotype’s Nadine Chahine to Design Typeface in Memory of Gebran Tueni, An-Nahar’s ...

An example of Bauhaus type and poster design (all images courtesy of Adobe and Bauhaus Dessau) Plenty of work was left unfinished when Bauhaus Dessau was closed abruptly in 1932 by the National ...