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WIRED Design, October 2014

Thanks to 40 years of increasingly cheap and tiny processors, new software, cheap sensors, and digital manufacturing, we can build products that seemed impossible a decade ago. WIRED has dubbed this new design renaissance Silicon Modern. Our editors collected 10 great exemplars of this movement, encompassing big ideas, inspiring projects, and new forms of expression. Silicon Modern is here, and design will never be the same. Original Composition by Nico Bergmann Recorded at First Voice Studio

Released on 09/25/2014

Transcript

[Narrator] Design, in all it's forms, is everywhere.

Your smartphone, your glasses,

the font on your car's in dash display.

Every aspect of your life has been shaped by designers.

And we have entered an age when powerful new tools

and technologies put new opportunities

at our fingertips every day.

Call it the era of silicon modern.

Designers can now create products

that would have seemed impossible a decade ago,

combining the physical and digital worlds,

customizing products beyond our wildest dreams,

and developing seamless experiences that feel truly magical.

In our latest installment of Design Life,

a yearly manual for gadgets and gear,

you'll find our favorite products

that help us get through our day,

allowing us to live richer and more connected lives.

Through this technological evolution,

designers have had to increase their fluency

in a multitude of fields,

from film to food.

And this Fall we are hosting Wired by Design,

where 200 of our colleagues and friends

will come together at Skywalker Sound

to discuss how design, in all it's forms,

can build a better future.