The Foundation Building's arcaded Italianate design by Frederick Petersen was the last word in 19th-century high style.

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If you've seen most of Microsoft's design language for nearly three years, there's only one word that sums it up: Metro.

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Boston's Route 128 was home not just to the minicomputer revolution but to early developments in word processing, spreadsheets, networks and computer-aided design.

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So with the help of a five-person design team, he came up with eye-catching graphics that include the word "organic" across the front of the package.

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No word yet on which PC maker is going to pick up this design, but an Intel rep staffing the press conference told us it should arrive in time for the back to school shopping season, which usually kicks off in late spring.

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Sales took off, largely by word of mouth but aided by the bottle's easily understood, bold label design.

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In green architecture news, word has just come out that Facebook has commissioned Bilbao-famed starchitect Frank Gehry to design a green extension to the Facebook Menlo Park campus - complete with a massive, walkable green roof!

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The largest consumer product companies have seen their chief marketing officers engage with software as a service (SaaS) providers to design and run their outbound marketing programs to launch new products and animate their loyalty programs, without a word with their internal IT organizations.

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