Observed | July 16
Google Head of Product Inclusion—and author of
Building For Everyone—
Annie Jean-Baptiste on better design practices. [JH]
AOC, master of the modern visual:
a beautiful essay by ALexandra Lange. [JH]
An extraordinary
new seriwes of books (three of them, slipcased) on Swiss graphic design history. [JH]
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon changed the world of design with her life-sized graphics. A new collaboration with filmmaker Gary Hustwit is designed to introduce her to a new generation of design lovers. [BV]
Is Artificial Intelligence...a design problem? [JH]
In fiction, the
contemporary art world is, more often than not, represented as a ridiculous shell game in which empty provocation is propped up by canny marketing and rampant financial speculation. [BV]
Will there ever be a place to sit down in
Moynihan Station? [BV]
Reimagined movie posters from Patrick Concepcion. (Via Allan Chochinov/Jason Kottke.) [JH]
Wolfgang Weingart, widely credited as the father of New Wave typography, has died. He was 80. [JH]
“His recent installations sweep us in, sometimes entertain, then ask us to step back and consider images and feelings that seem too full, too immediate, to consider.” The internationally acclaimed artist
Christian Boltanski has died in Paris. He was 76. [JH]
Saved from a dumpster, glass negatives reveal
life in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. (Via Don Whelan.) [JH]
The UK filmmaker Paul Bush is known for his stop-motion animations using repurposed objects. In his nostalgic short
Ride, he finds his muse in the
iconic motorcycles of the 1950s and ’60s. [BV]
Observed | July 06
Where’s our flying-car future? Maybe it’s
finally a little closer, thanks to AirCar.
[BV]
Observed | June 30
“In the infinite collection of gigantic, dwarven, elongated, flattened, skeletal, microscopic, grotesque, gnarled typefaces that grows everyday,” wrote Alphonse to Boissieu in 1854, “it is surprising that no one has thought of reproducing the beautiful antique letter whose proportions are so fortunately and wisely combined...” More on epigraphy—the study of ’exposed writings‘—and on Mercure, the new typeface from Fonderie Abyme,
here
[JH]
Observed | June 25
Parsing the pixels to discern truth from falsehood:
truth and consequences in the deepfake era.
[JH]
Observed | June 24
A touching exchange between two wonderful art directors, brought together by unlikely circumstances: Steve Heller and Véronique Vienne reflect on creativity, a chronic illness, and everything in between.
[JH]
Observed | June 15
Everything you ever wanted to know about, well,
everything (design-related, that is). Or so they claim!
[JH]
Observed | June 09
Is protest more potent when you adopt the typeface of your subject?
Don’t miss these photos.
[JH]
Observed | June 08
Artist Corita Kent’s famed
Hollywood studio is saved in a landmark historical preservation victory.
[JH]
Observed | June 01
A fascinating look back at the
internet’s major milestones.
[JH]
Observed | May 27
Next week marks the 100 year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the focus of a new historic center,
Greenwood Rising, opening next week. “Greenwood Rising honors the icons of Black Wall Street, memorializes the victims of the massacre, and examines the lessons of the past to inspire meaningful, sustainable action in the present.”
[BV]
Observed | May 26
How Colonial Pipeline’s
archaic branding told us all we needed to know about the company. (via
James I. Bowie)
[BV]
President Biden
revokes Trump‘s controversial classical architecture order.
[JH]
Observed | May 25
Design Twitter goes wild over David Hockney’s typographic reworking of the
Picadilly Circus logo.
[JH]
Observed | May 19
Join the Society of Design Arts (SoDA) and AIGA Baltimore for an online talk by Rafael Cardoso, part of a virtual series created to promote the rich and plural histories of Latin American production in design.
Free registration here.
[JH]
Observed | May 18
After a decade of design and planning,
+Pool has been approved by the city of New York. Listen to Michael Bierut’s conversation with founder and designer,
Archie Lee Coates IV, on Season 6 of DBBD.
[JH]
Observed | May 12
Kerby Jean-Raymond will be the first Black designer to show at Couture Week in Paris. Listen to Michael Bierut’s interview with him on Season 6 of The Design of Business | The Business of Design
here.
[JH]
The kind of
speculative mashup you need right now.
[JH]
Observed | May 10
“Nothing is unaffordable in a C.G.I. dreamscape, and rent is never due.” Anna Weiner on the speculative design world of “
renderporn”.
[JH]
Observed | May 09
Ellen Degeneres launches a new reality show to find
the next great furniture designer.
[JH]
Observed | May 07
Infusing
design with equity: one designer’s perspective.
[JH]
John Foster and his wife, Teenuh, have been longtime collectors of self-taught art and vernacular photography. Their collection of anonymous, found snapshots has toured the country for five years and has been featured in Harper’s, Newsweek Online and others. 
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