Design Juice
Rachel Paese|Design Juice
In a world that feels impossible to change, emerging designer Deborah Khodanovich is starting small
The RISD MFA student turned her love of gossip into a typeface and a philosophy: that designing for your immediate community is where real change begins
Design Juice
L’Oreal Thompson Payton|Books
Less is liberation: Christine Platt talks Afrominimalism and designing a spacious life
When the author and advocate learned to live with — and do — less, she found so much more.
Arts + Culture
Jessica Helfand|The Icarus Diaries
20: Deus ex Machina
I have separately begun a series of drawings exploring the line language that comes from combining an apparatus with a human form. Not quite cyborgs, these hybrid explorations tease at movement and stasis, veering into anatomical dislocation and a new (for me) kind of visual language. Pencil and paper. Some watercolor. Waxed thread, (because, well, wax).
Dave Snyder
The compound interest of design: what not to build
Editor’s note: This is Dave Snyder’s first opinion piece for Design Observer. Be sure to read to the end. I’ve been designing digital products for 25 years. I remember when the big decision was going from 800×600 to 1024 pixels. I’ve lived through multiple cycles of VR hype, watched the web go from static pages … Continued
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Ellen McGirt|Interviews
The face, reconsidered
Civic Life
Bert de Muynck|Essays
Walkie talkie: An architect-turned-tour guide on designing presence in Lisbon
Design Juice
Delaney Rebernik|Books
‘Designed Forests’ author Dan Handel says design is behind our experiences in nature
Architecture
Delaney Rebernik|Fresh Ink