Observed | July 31
Branding a pandemic. (via Kim Baer.) [JH]
Observed | July 28
Why do
these Apple ads, from a company that takes such pride in design, feature four people who are clearly not trained designers, designing? [BV]
Observed | July 27
Communicative efficiency is not the same as communicative empathy, and one of the truly gut-punching limits of social media is how poorly it corresponds to the individual experience of human grief.
A primer by Jason Fields. [JH]
Observed | July 22
Futurefeed is an online space where writers, artists, and thinkers are invited to experiment + explore ideas that are important to them over an extended period of time. [JH]
Observed | July 21
Open a new
window somewhere in the world. [BV]
The X-Prize Mask Challenge is looking for a face mask that is attractive, innovative, and achieves the filtration efficacy on par with a surgical mask. PS: You also have to be under 25 years old to enter. (Via Kim Baer.) [JH]
Observed | July 16
How Mexico City
crowdsourced a map of its riotous informal bus system. [BV]
The atlas of surveillance. (Yes, you read that right.) [JH]
Observed | July 15
Social Matter, Social Design challenges the way we look at, think of, and interact with the social world by emphasizing the role of materiality. [JH]
When governors are graphic designers:
a continuing story. [JH]
Observed | July 14
Design For America, the World Design Organization, and IBM team up to launch the
COVID Design Challenge. [JH]
A national reckoning: why It is falling to individuals to become their own
interim museums and archives. [JH]
Observed | July 10
Together again for the very first time, Microsoft
ditches backgrounds for foregrounds—like simulated office desks. [JH]
A new, coronavirus-inspired concoction at Alinea, one of the world’s most famous restaurants, is
spurring backlash online. (via Blake Eskin) [BV]
Observed | July 08
A look inside
the typography of the Biden campaign, by Hoefler & Co. [JH]
Observed | July 06
Designer and photographer
Margaret Morton, who taught for many years at Cooper Union and at Yale, died last week at her home in New York City. She was 71. [JH]
Observed | July 03
Architect James Biber on
backgrounds as the new foregrounds. (Via Adrian Shaughnessy.) [JH]
Observed | July 01
An exhaustive study of
house address number styles. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
Observed | June 29
Aric Jenkins curated some
essential writing on racial inequity and injustice in urban planning and design for Pocket. [BV]
Alice Rawsthorn and Paula Antonelli cohost
Design Emergency, a new series on Instagram Live. [JH]
Observed | June 26
In the “you can’t make this shit up” department, from the company once described as
a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,
Goldman Sachs releases a new font you’re not allowed to criticize Goldman Sachs with. (H/T Jeffrey Kittay) [JH]
Observed | June 24
The Drift is a
new online magazine about politics and culture. (Don’t miss what bores them.) [JH]
Observed | June 23
June 24 at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern: don‘t miss Rachel Gogel speaking in the
Ladies Who Create series from Dropbox. [JH]
Observed | June 10
IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research
facial recognition technology. [BV]
Observed | June 01
For the Army Corps of Engineers in 1944, Harold Fisk created
extraordinarily beautiful maps of the changing Mississippi River over time. [MB]
Observed | May 29
A brilliant and timely design exploration: Alexandra Bell disrupts perception by rewriting headlines. (Via Lana Rigsby.) [JH]
Observed | May 28
The new book from Scott Berkun,
How Design Makes the World, “will help you see design everywhere and question why it works—or why it fails.”—Ellen Lupton.
Watch the trailer. [BV]
Observed | May 27
Kate Wagner at McMansionHell on
the rise of Coronagrifting: “cheap mockups of COVID-related design ‘solutions’ filling the endlessly scrollable feeds of PR-beholden design websites” [MB]
Observed | May 21
Former Design of Business | Business of Design podcast guest David Rockwell creates a kit for
instant outdoor restaurant dining. [MB]
Observed | May 20
Floodwaters threaten Mies van der Rohe’s
Farnsworth House. [MB]
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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