Design Highlights

Mehndi looks beautiful on the hand especially on a bride before her marriage. It is also a good conditioner for the hair and also gives it a good colour and is cool for the head when applied.

Mediterranean style appeals to those who want a formal but welcoming home.

With 300 years of tradition to its credit, Georgian is an enduring classic.

The log house was America's first do-it-yourself project.

Mission style is rooted in 16th-century missions of Southern California.

Narrow shotguns are coveted old homes rich with Southern nostalgia.

Born in 17th-century Europe, row houses are coming back into their own.

Today "prefab" is the buzzword of modern architectural design.

Large or small, coastal-style homes reflect man's fascination with the sea.

Scott Dadich talks about designing Wired Magazine, developing a creative culture in magazine design, with three guiding ideas; that details matter, to design by evolution rather than revolution, and that constraint is freedom. Here he focuses on the law of optical volumes which is the correct spacing between each letter within a word and how he used this to his advantaged on Wired's typeface.

Swiss designers are known for style, creativity, and detailed execution. In February, the best of Swiss Design comes to California with the biennial Design Preis Schweiz, or Swiss Design Award exhibition. Dwell Magazine's Aaron Britt moderates the opening panel discussion with top designers bridging the US and Europe. In this video Swiss representatives Heidi Wegener and Wilhelm Oehl explain the Swiss designing process.

Frank Gehry, in conversation with Thomas Pritzker, talks about his long and distinguished career as one of the world's best known modern architects as part of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. He details the design philosophy behind some of his most famous buildings, and explains how he conveys passion and feelings with the incorporation of movement in his architecture.

Frank Gehry, in conversation with Thomas Pritzker, talks about his long and distinguished career as one of the world's best known modern architects as part of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. He details the design philosophy behind some of his most famous buildings including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California.

The Logo Machine: Lesley Moore Design's DIY Branding The Consulate General of the Netherlands, SF - California College of the Arts Lesley Moore is an Amsterdam-based graphic design studio founded by Karin van den Brandt and Alex Clay in 2004. Their moniker is a pseudonym derived from the modernist maxim "less is more," which fits their approach toward graphic design. Their clients include Mark Magazine and The Centraal Museum in Utrecht.

The Consulate General of the Netherlands, SF - Dutch Consulate Dwell Editor-in-Chief Sam Grawe leads a discussion with designers Jan Habraken, Alissia Melka-Teichroew of New York-based byAMT Studio, and Maaike Evers of San Francisco-based Mike & Maaike as they discuss what it means to be a Dutch designer working in the United States.