March/April 2011
COVER STORY
Sparks Fly
Can imagination be taught? Evidently, because the d.school’s innovation hothouse is changing the way people think. By Mike Antonucci

Weighing History
Why does the Western world dominate? What happens as the East catches up? To find out, Ian Morris went back to the very beginning and crunched numbers. By Joel McCormick

Worlds of Her Making
Whether she's creating a bright scarf or a crushing boulder, movie designer Suttirat Larlarb specializes in the totally convincing. By Sonia Van Gilder Cooke