Yet for all its ambition, the Cooper- Hewitt design triennial is still more of a sampling than a survey, with major gaps in its inventory, including the fact that most of the designs come from either New York or California.

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Jay Greene presents an odd conundrum with his latest book, a survey of how large household brands integrate design principles into their products.

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He notes that a proprietary survey found that the number of resellers with more customers buying design software from Autodesk in the October quarter fell to 46% from 80% in the previous quarter, with 38% indicating sales were down more than 10%.

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