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OBlog is our editors' blog — with contributions by Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand, Julie Lasky, Betsy Vardell, Nancy Levinson, and Josh Wallaert.

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OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Are these buildings? No, this is art... (05.22.13)
OBLOG: Wheelwright Prize 2013 Winner (05.20.13)
OBLOG: Infographic: The Global Public Interest Design 100 (05.16.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Tales From A Parallel Universe (05.15.13)
OBLOG: Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America (05.15.13)
OBLOG: Circus Poster Archive (05.14.13)
OBLOG: Ideas that Matter (05.10.13)
OBLOG: Recent Books Received: 05.09.13 (05.09.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Look Out For Pirates (05.08.13)
OBLOG: Saul Bass Google Doodle (05.08.13)
OBLOG: The Craft of Design (05.03.13)
OBLOG: Change of State (05.03.13)
OBLOG: counter/point: The 2013 D-Crit Conference (05.02.13)
OBLOG: Recent Books Received: 05.02.13 (05.02.13)
OBLOG: FILMography (05.01.13)
OBLOG: Book Trade Labels (04.29.13)
OBLOG: Movies in Color (04.26.13)
OBLOG: Recent Books Received: 04.25.13 (04.25.13)
OBLOG: Modern Pictograms (04.24.13)
OBLOG: Maddie the Coonhound (04.23.13)
OBLOG: Awful Library Books (04.22.13)
OBLOG: Editorial Design. Summer. Portugal. (04.22.13)
OBLOG: AIGA Medal for Design Excellence (04.19.13)
OBLOG: Recent Books Received: 04.18.13 (04.18.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Blurry Fuzzy World (04.17.13)
OBLOG: Branding the Presidents (04.16.13)
OBLOG: Bringing Data and Storytelling Together (04.15.13)
OBLOG: Unmixed Paint (04.12.13)
OBLOG: Recent Books Received: 04.11.13 (04.11.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Damaged Goods (04.10.13)
OBLOG: Czech Book Covers of the 1920's and 30's (04.09.13)
OBLOG: Welcoming Dr. Paul Polak (04.08.13)
OBLOG: Rick Poynor: Writing with Pictures (04.04.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: The Library (04.04.13)
OBLOG: The Emergence of Advertising in America (04.03.13)
OBLOG: The Enduring Allure of Vintage Snapshots (03.29.13)
OBLOG: Ann Weber Dumpster Dives in Rome (03.28.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Curatimus Maximus (03.27.13)
OBLOG: Graphic Advocacy Posters (03.27.13)
OBLOG: Classic Albums Reimagined as Books (03.26.13)
OBLOG: Recent Books Received: 03.26.13 (03.26.13)
OBLOG: Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders (03.25.13)
OBLOG: Mirror (03.22.13)
OBLOG: 1920s Chicago Transit Posters (03.21.13)
OBLOG: Free Desk Here (03.20.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Bladerunner Magazines (03.20.13)
OBLOG: Google on the Mountain (03.19.13)
OBLOG: 2012: The Year in Construction (03.19.13)
OBLOG: Pantone Food Chips (03.18.13)
OBLOG: We The Designers (03.18.13)
OBLOG: Compostmodern 2013 (03.15.13)
OBLOG: Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Medalists Announced (03.15.13)
OBLOG: Educate Girls and Change the World (03.14.13)
OBLOG: Found: National Geographic (03.13.13)
OBLOG: Parking Meter History (03.12.13)
OBLOG: SVA/BBC Design Film Festival (03.12.13)
OBLOG: The Artist is Present (03.11.13)
OBLOG: Envisioning Design: Education, Culture, Practice (03.11.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Signs of Pittsburgh (03.08.13)
OBLOG: Atrocity Prevention Challenge (03.08.13)
OBLOG: Poetry Magazine Covers (03.07.13)
OBLOG: Drunk Texts from Famous Authors (03.07.13)
OBLOG: Surf Movie Classics (03.07.13)
OBLOG: Movie Title Stills Collection (03.06.13)
OBLOG: The Me Bird (03.05.13)
OBLOG: Call for Student Submissions (03.04.13)
OBLOG: The Covers of Time (03.04.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Manhole Covers (03.01.13)
OBLOG: 50 Books/50 Covers Competition: Deadline March 31 (03.01.13)
OBLOG: counter/point: The 2013 D-Crit Conference (02.28.13)
OBLOG: A Million Times (02.28.13)
OBLOG: Terra Cibus: Food at Extreme Magnification (02.26.13)
OBLOG: Dual Perspective Videos (02.25.13)
OBLOG: Vivian Maier: The Movie (02.22.13)
OBLOG: Flickr Collection of the Week: Construtivist Posters (02.21.13)
OBLOG: Maps as Propaganda (02.20.13)
OBLOG: London Transport Museum Poster Colletion (02.20.13)
OBLOG: Ronald Shakespear (02.19.13)
OBLOG: Design Indaba FilmFest 2013 (02.18.13)
OBLOG: Filming Love in Times Square (02.15.13)
OBLOG: A Campaign to Save The Post Office (02.14.13)
OBLOG: Valentinishness (02.14.13)
OBLOG: Introducing Ductus (02.13.13)
OBLOG: Produce Sculptures (02.11.13)
OBLOG: Celebrating 8 Years of Design Matters (02.10.13)
OBLOG: National Poetry Month Poster (02.05.13)
OBLOG: Irving Harper, Paper Wizard (02.04.13)
OBLOG: Voice Over (01.29.13)
OBLOG: A Two-Minute Walk Through The Louvre (01.17.13)
OBLOG: The Art of Cang Xin (01.16.13)
OBLOG: Form Follows Function (01.16.13)
OBLOG: Album Cover Patterns (01.15.13)
OBLOG: Moviebarcode (01.11.13)
OBLOG: Homeland Vintage Jazz Record Covers (01.10.13)
OBLOG: Little Printer (01.09.13)
OBLOG: Forgotten Tube Stations (01.08.13)
OBLOG: Poster Design with Saul Bass and Stanley Kubrick (01.07.13)
OBLOG: Folded Paper Font (01.07.13)
OBLOG: Open Call for Global Correspondents (01.03.13)
OBLOG: If Famous Designers Used Twitter 50 Years Ago (01.03.13)
OBLOG: Point of View (01.02.13)
OBLOG: Philographics (12.29.12)
OBLOG: The Knitting Clock (12.20.12)
OBLOG: Neon: Bright Lights, Big City (12.17.12)
OBLOG: Happy Holidays from Robert Frost (12.17.12)
OBLOG: Seaphones (12.15.12)
OBLOG: 1550 Chairs (12.14.12)
OBLOG: Shake (12.12.12)
OBLOG: Beyond Gravity (12.11.12)
OBLOG: Building a Classroom (12.10.12)
OBLOG: Infographic: Public Interest Design 100 (12.05.12)
OBLOG: Fig. 1-99 (12.04.12)
OBLOG: Soma: Water Cleaned Beautifully (12.04.12)
OBLOG: Hiding In The City (12.04.12)
OBLOG: Visualizing Mass Transit (12.03.12)
OBLOG: 'Engraved' Waves of Color Stamps (12.02.12)
OBLOG: Tree, Line (12.01.12)
OBLOG: Tweeting Birds (11.30.12)
OBLOG: Silent World (11.29.12)
OBLOG: Transparent Speakers (11.29.12)
OBLOG: Romeo and Juliet Poster (11.28.12)
OBLOG: Luxury Therapy (11.27.12)
OBLOG: Daily Dishonesty (11.27.12)
OBLOG: The Cheetah at 1200 Frames per Second (11.27.12)
OBLOG: Domestic Trophies (11.26.12)
OBLOG: Speculative Sound Performance (11.26.12)
OBLOG: Shaping Text: Type, Typography and the Reader (11.26.12)
OBLOG: Bunny Land (11.23.12)
OBLOG: Sandwich Art (11.23.12)
OBLOG: Galactic Lollipops and other Delights (11.21.12)
OBLOG: Clearing Landmines with Windpower (11.21.12)
OBLOG: Call for Applications: Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellows Program (11.20.12)
OBLOG: Audible Posters (11.20.12)
OBLOG: Least Likely to be Adopted (11.19.12)
OBLOG: Staircase Made of Stacked Boxes (11.19.12)
OBLOG: Celebrate World Toilet Day (11.19.12)
OBLOG: Stone Cushions (11.15.12)
OBLOG: Culinary Pantone Colors (11.15.12)
OBLOG: Bookshelf Necklace (11.14.12)
OBLOG: How Does Your Salary Compare? (11.13.12)
OBLOG: The Pyrography and Mixed Media of Scott Marr (11.13.12)
OBLOG: The Quantified Self (11.13.12)
OBLOG: Book Sculptures (11.13.12)
OBLOG: The World’s First 3D Printing Photo Booth (11.12.12)
OBLOG: Exhibition Opening: As Real As It Gets (11.09.12)
OBLOG: One World Futbol (11.09.12)
OBLOG: Furniture Waffles (11.07.12)
OBLOG: The Time is Now (11.06.12)
OBLOG: Bodyscapes (11.05.12)
OBLOG: Swedish String Shelf (11.01.12)
OBLOG: 100 Years of Poetry (11.01.12)
OBLOG: Works That Work (10.31.12)
OBLOG: Climate of Doubt (10.29.12)
OBLOG: Jessica Helfand on NPR: The Future Of 'Short Attention Span Theater' (10.29.12)
OBLOG: Extra Moenia (10.26.12)
OBLOG: They Go To Die (10.25.12)
OBLOG: Celebrating the Case Study: 18 Winning Entries from AIGA's Justified (10.22.12)
OBLOG: Design Indaba Online FilmFest (10.20.12)
OBLOG: Bulbs (10.19.12)
OBLOG: Public Works (10.18.12)
OBLOG: Clouds (10.18.12)
OBLOG: NYC Architecture Design Film Festival (10.17.12)
OBLOG: Unbored (10.16.12)
OBLOG: Jessica Helfand on Listen Close (10.16.12)
OBLOG: New Season of Design Matters with Debbie Millman (10.15.12)
OBLOG: Week in Review: 10.13.12 (10.13.12)
OBLOG: 4D Lettering (10.12.12)
OBLOG: Fragile Wings (10.11.12)
OBLOG: Tracy Metz: Sweet & Salt (10.09.12)
OBLOG: Selling the Sixties (10.08.12)
OBLOG: Cardboard Masks (10.05.12)
OBLOG: Wade Guyton: Cause for Optimism (10.05.12)
OBLOG: 50 Books/50 Covers: Announcements (10.01.12)
OBLOG: Week in Review: 09.29.12 (09.29.12)
OBLOG: AIGA Survey of Design Salaries 2012 (09.26.12)
OBLOG: Art Without Artists (09.25.12)
OBLOG: Paris vs New York (09.21.12)
OBLOG: The Square (09.21.12)
OBLOG: Amend (09.20.12)
OBLOG: Week in Review: 09.15.12 (09.15.12)
OBLOG: London Design Festival 2012 (09.14.12)
OBLOG: Uncreative Writing (09.11.12)
OBLOG: Unedited Photo of Namibia (09.10.12)
OBLOG: Remembering Bill Moggridge (09.09.12)
OBLOG: Design Film Festival at Venice Biennale (08.24.12)
OBLOG: August 23 Design Observer Rewind (08.23.12)
OBLOG: Swimming Studies (08.15.12)
OBLOG: Merce Cunningham: The App (08.13.12)
OBLOG: A Bathroom Mirror (07.27.12)
OBLOG: Olympic App-elete (07.26.12)
OBLOG: Next Time You Need a T-shirt (07.19.12)
OBLOG: The Sound-Word Index (07.19.12)
OBLOG: Arial vs Helvetica: War is Hell (07.18.12)
OBLOG: Neighborhood Story Project (07.16.12)
OBLOG: Miro Notebooks (07.13.12)
OBLOG: Week in Review: 07.07.12 (07.07.12)
OBLOG: Independence Day : The Real Story (07.04.12)
OBLOG: Independence Day Challenge (06.28.12)
OBLOG: Week in Review: 06.23.12 (06.23.12)
OBLOG: Live/Work Contest Winner (06.22.12)
OBLOG: The Hinglish Project (06.22.12)
OBLOG: CRITICAL: Lisbon (06.20.12)
OBLOG: A Public Service Announcement: Collecting Air (06.20.12)
OBLOG: John Foster: Accidental Masterpieces (06.19.12)
OBLOG: DOG Spottings: Apple Features Design Observer (06.15.12)
OBLOG: Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (06.14.12)
OBLOG: Week in Review: 06.09.12 (06.09.12)
OBLOG: 31,000 Flights Over Holland (06.08.12)
OBLOG: Week In Review: 06.02.12 (06.02.12)
OBLOG: 30 Posters for a Sustainable World (05.31.12)
OBLOG: Leonard Ross : Photographs of Social Change (05.29.12)
OBLOG: Hillman Curtis Celebration Benefit (05.28.12)
OBLOG: Design + Craft: The Brazilian Path (05.28.12)
OBLOG: Week In Review: 05.26.12 (05.26.12)
OBLOG: Meet Chip : A Recycled Chipboard Clock (05.25.12)
OBLOG: Sites of Memory (05.25.12)
OBLOG: Signs We Love : 02 (05.25.12)
OBLOG: Graphic Design : History in the Writing (05.24.12)
OBLOG: Signs We Love : 01 (05.23.12)
OBLOG: We Don't [Heart] NY at Moments Like These (05.21.12)
OBLOG: Week in Review: 05.19.12 (05.19.12)
OBLOG: Poetry Editor: Adam Plunkett (05.18.12)
OBLOG: Update: Design For Change Goes Global (05.18.12)
OBLOG: The Hypothetical Development Organization (05.17.12)
OBLOG: The Architecture of Television (05.16.12)
OBLOG: Women, Equity, Architecture (05.16.12)
OBLOG: Why We Look (05.15.12)
OBLOG: Oded Ezer and Typographic Experimentation (05.14.12)
OBLOG: Make a Mixel this Weekend (05.11.12)
OBLOG: A Pattern Language (05.10.12)
OBLOG: Unusual Suspects: A New Series (05.09.12)
OBLOG: Page One: Great Expectations (05.07.12)
OBLOG: Ingenious Solutions for Simple Needs : 01 (05.04.12)
OBLOG: The Visual Language of Herbert Matter (05.02.12)
OBLOG: Ex-Libris : The Art of the Bookplate (05.01.12)
OBLOG: Two Foto Animator (05.01.12)
OBLOG: Alien Phenomenology: Or, What It's Like To Be A Thing (04.27.12)
OBLOG: Mill Rock Farm (04.26.12)
OBLOG: Yoshiko Sato 1960-2012 : An Exhibition (04.24.12)
OBLOG: Ideas that Matter (04.23.12)
OBLOG: Eventually Everything: The 2012 D-Crit Conference (04.23.12)
OBLOG: Invisible (04.19.12)
OBLOG: Flyover Farm (04.18.12)
OBLOG: The Russian Empire, Before Photoshop (04.17.12)
OBLOG: James Victore's Q&A Tuesday (04.16.12)
OBLOG: Core77 2012 Design Awards (04.08.12)
OBLOG: Happy Easter (04.08.12)
OBLOG: Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities (04.08.12)

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