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" See the full listFeatured products Design 100 is an editor&amp;#039;s dream (and nightmare, but more on that later): We get to include all our favorite things, to paraphrase The Sound of Music. There are caveats, of course: Everything we include must be new or somehow upgraded/refreshed during the past year; each must lend itself to photography and be explainable in 50 words, more or less; they must be &amp;quot;worthy,&amp;quot; which is obviously open to wildly divergent interpretation; they must be amusing, cute, sexy, beautiful, playful or socially responsible; they must strike a balance with the other 99 items on the list; and\u2014hardest of all\u2014they must meet the approval of the majority of the editorial staff, i.e., 8 of 14 extraordinarily opinionated people. Best of all, for me anyway, it&amp;#039;s a list, and I love lists (although counting correctly to 100 seems far more difficult than it should be). Each year there&amp;#039;s always one contender, typically trivial, that we argue about more than anything else. Two years ago it was Costco&amp;#039;s rotisserie chicken. Last year it was our closing page, &amp;quot;Design to Die For.&amp;quot; Did readers really want a full page on high-style places for their final remains? This year, there was a fairly vehement &amp;quot;discussion&amp;quot; about eggs (No. 25). But the real difficulty came when we tried to take a picture of a fish.  In considering pet shelters, 8 of the 14 loudly opinionated editors agreed to include a wall-mounted fishbowl (No. 86). The art department thought the image provided by the manufacturer wasn&amp;#039;t what it should be and decided we should photograph it ourselves. Animal lover that I am, I asked what they were going to do with a live fish after the shot was taken (it turns out, of course, that pet stores will not accept returns on fish, as one editor suggested). I threatened dire action if there was no fine future for any live fish we might acquire, so it was decided to substitute a toy fish. I was skeptical: How would a toy fish float under water? But on my way home, I passed a toy store and found the goldfish (above), which I was assured would sink appropriately when filled with water. It didn&amp;#039;t. We decided to go with the available image. Oops, it wasn&amp;#039;t electronically sufficient to meet our production standards. Back to shooting the fish. Long story a bit shorter: A trip to a local pet supplier produced Mr.\u2014and later, Mrs.\u2014Bojangles, who are now living happily ever after in their newly furnished, chic digs in art director Keith D&amp;#039;Mello&amp;#039;s office.We hope this issue is both a dream and a solid reality for you, too. It&amp;#039;s meant to be fun and informative.  And, yes, we finally managed to count correctly to 100. \u2014Donna Warner, Editor in Chief On our website, you can find a selection of our favorite things. To see everything on our list, please pick up the May issue, on newsstands now. FISH: JEFFREY FELMUS. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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