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The Editors

News from Elsewhere

Back to school edition

The Editors

The Auditor

Designer Khoi Vinh and his (unscientific) survey of designers and their toolboxes

John Foster

Stalking Brick City

The Newark street photography of Cesar Melgar

Bonnie Siegler

Three Reasons: The Palm Beach Story

A Preston Sturges classic to end the summer on

Michael Bierut + Jessica Helfand

September Issues

Google’s new logo, design thinking, and lessons from Oliver Sacks

Véronique Vienne

Reflections on the Page

Why we still read books

Rick Poynor

Exposure: Beauty Salon in Kraków by David Hlynsky

The Surrealism of window displays

Debbie Millman

Design Matters From the Archive: Michael Arad

The designer of the 9/11 memorial—Michael Arad— on the process of design.

John Foster

Tuning In

Early television call signs

Bonnie Siegler

Naive in Norwalk

Dear Bonnie doles out some homework

Steven Heller

Logos Start Media Frenzy!!

Does the media know what designers do?

Timothy Young

Toward Meaningful Marginalia

Sage scribblings

Rick Poynor

Exposure: Crime Scene in Paris by Alphonse Bertillon

The killing of a bank messenger

Debbie Millman

Design Matters From the Archive: Chip Kidd

Debbie talks to book designer Chip Kidd about why his TED talk turned into the most terrifying 19 minutes of his life, and about his book of graphic design for children.

The Editors

News from Elsewhere

From Tokyo to Paris

Giorgio Maffei

Munari's Books

Books as a means of expression

Véronique Vienne

Graphique de la Rue

Typographic Splendor as Propaganda

Adam Harrison Levy

The History of Being Found

Life before Street View

Rick Poynor

Exposure: Children at Play in the City by Shirley Baker

The freedom of the street

Debbie Millman

Design Matters From The Archive: Marion Deuchars

Debbie talks to illustrator and author Marion Deuchars about the expressiveness of hand-lettering, about how drawing is an intense form of looking, and the limited value of technology in teaching art to children.

The Editors

News from Elsewhere

Late summer edition

John Foster

A New Life in Fine Art

The collages of Lou Beach

Bonnie Siegler

Dear Bonnie

Sources of Inspiration

Michael Bierut + Jessica Helfand

Over the Rainbow

Rainbows, selfie sticks, and the flag of New Zealand

Rob Walker

Human-Scale Intervention

How Rotten Apple’s human-scale design interventions use built-environment cast-offs to enhance the built environment

Creative Opportunities
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