Print is dying. Print is dead. The publishing business is toast. I can’t believe you don’t have a Kindle/iPad. Isn’t that bag too heavy with a hardcover book in it? Common refrains these days, especially here in the tech innovation center of the world: the Bay Area. And, wonderfully, the cool cats at McSweeney’s just...

Manila-born, San Diego-based designer Bennett Peji embraces the self-coined aphorism "form follows culture" in his work for cities and communities.

With billions of searches per day, Google.com brings real meaning to designing at scale. As its products reach people from 150 countries speaking more than 100 languages, Google’'s design team has had to develop a unique philosophy for user-centered design. Marissa Mayer, who guides the user experience on Google.com and several other properties, will explore how both empiricism and personality are essential to good design.