Observed
Is
the future of refugee housing permanence?
“
It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby,” explores Picasso‘s legacy through a feminist lens, asking if, when, and how modern audiences can separate the artist’s work from his infamously misogynistic behavior.
Quite possibly the most
fascinating job opportunity in design right now.
Jessica Helfand on
using AI as a tool to reverse-engineer a
historical narrative.
Rethinking the city.
Rethinking the planet.
The problems of the user interface, one streaming service at a time.
More here.
Urban design, with safety in mind. And that
includes parks.
Think
design thinking is over? Think again.
A museum renames a vegetable still life by Van Gogh that identified
the wrong kind of allium.
Graphic design and typography obsessives—
look no further!
“The challenge isn’t just that our systems default to keeping the “unlike” out,”
notes Jens Martin Skibsted, “but we are, rather, in need of an interconnected worldview that appreciates the existence of other realities and contexts.”
Neville Brody’s new monograph (his THIRD)—covering his work for Nike, Coca-Cola, Tate Modern and Channel 4, as well as various informational graphics and magazine editorials—will be published next month by Thames&Hudson.
Milan Design Week wants to know your most memorable experience. Ours is easily
Shaped by Water, an immersive experience exploring water as a source of inspiration for design. Co-created by Ivy Ross and her design team in collaboration with the water, light, and sound artist, Lachlan Turczan.
Vote for your favorite here.
Non-profit design advocacy agency Where are the Black Designers? (WATBD?)
has announced a year-long partnership with digital product studio Ustwo.
“He was mulling a career in graphic design when, at 17, he saw a searing image that would change the course of his life.” The American photographer
Kwame Brathwaite has died. Considered the catalyst fo the “black is beautiful” movement in the 1960s, Braithwaite’s career spanned art, music, and more. He was 85.
The subtley, simplicity, and curious symbolism of
the humble serif.
After a career of looking at pictures, she is now making them.
George Gendron talks to Kathy Ryan, longtime director of photography at
The New York Times Magazine.
COLLINS co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Brian Collins and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Leland Maschmeyer will speak on branding and creativity at
OFFF Barcelona this weekend.
“I can’t imagine any person with a background in graphic design made that thing without a committee of bland politicians sanding away its edges until they felt safe enough to unveil that to the public.” Behold:
Logogate!
Black designers, curators, and more.
How do you stop deep-sea trawlers from harming ecosystems?
Commission 10-ton marble sculptures and place them on the ocean floor, of course.
For ten years, Matt Needle has
reimagined every best picture award nominee by redesigning their posters.
Coca-Cola...
and art?
Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, and author of Writing about Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Record, Dwell, Metropolis, Print, New York Magazine and The New York Times. 
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