CAD, stereolithography, and laser sintering: modern process technologies have long since sustainably changed the production chain. Neil Gershenfeld, a professor at MIT in Boston, knows this too. His vision: in the future, consumers will take engineering, design, and the production of even complex high technology into their own hands. A bold thesis, yet the increasing convergence of these areas will change design. We explore existing approaches in our cover story on "Personal Fabrication."

The most remarkable news this time isn't between the lines. This is the first issue after the redesign, which the subtitle "The Making of Design" clearly indicates. In the future, the design process will be much more central to the reporting. An improved layout is intended to increase readability, which includes the use of the Antiqua typeface Dutch in combination with the much cooler Univers, which, like our former house typeface Frutiger, comes from the Swiss typographer of the same name.

January/February 2006, Verlag form, 134 pages, 23 × 29.8 cm, softcover, issue in German/English