The Style & Design 100

Good design is everywhere these days. Great design—the objects, places and ideas that fuse functionality and aesthetics and then push the boundaries a step further to capture the imagination—is more elusive. Take a look at the standouts.

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Front's Sketch line uses motion-capture technology.

Tommy Backlin
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Front is a rarity: a design group composed entirely of women. The women—Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren and Katja Savstrom—met as industrial-design students at Stockholm's Konstfack, from which they graduated in 2004. The foursome's inventive, slightly offbeat projects are the results of vast curiosity. Animals, a recurring theme, have been used both collaboratively (rat-chewed wallpaper) and inspirationally (a horse-shaped lamp, below). More recently, the Sketch Furniture collection utilized motion-capture and rapid-prototyping technologies to turn freehand drawings into tangible objects. Next, Normal but Strange Things explores the potential of common objects.

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