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In a mostly grayscale picture, a dark cloaked figure looms above a bright orange campfire.

Ellen McGirt|Books

Parable of the Redesigner

Soft rains come in spite of us.

Ellen McGirt

Parable of the Redesigner

Reflecting on Ray Bradbury, Sara Teasdale, and Octavia Butler, Ellen McGirt explores redesign, resilience, and the quiet power of change.

Ellen McGirt|Essays

The Design Observer annual gift guide!

The winter holidays are already a tricky time for so many people, though this year feels uniquely fraught.

Ellen McGirt|Essays

Gratitude? HARD PASS

We ask too much of gratitude.

Two Black men in face masks are in the foreground of a BLM protest. A visible sign among protesters behind them reads: "Black Lives Matter"

Ellen McGirt|Democracy

New kids on the bloc?

Equity, race relations, preserving Black history, and saving democracy are top of mind.

Ellen McGirt|Essays

I’m looking for a dad in finance

It’s Nobel Prize season. (Big dramatic sigh.)

An image of hurricane aftermath, including mud-laden streets, fallen trees, and a car nose-down, halfway submerged in muddy water

Ellen McGirt|Design and Climate Change

What will we do when all the levees break?

Ellen McGirt|Audio

S11E10: Activism in AI with Google’s Ovetta Sampson

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S11E9: What’s Love Got to do with Business with Jorge Fontanez

Ellen McGirt|Audio

S11E8: Poetry is Anti Capitalist with Tracy K. Smith

In this episode of DB|BD, hosts Jessica Helfand and Ellen McGirt sit down with Smith to talk through the writing process of two of her most recent works.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S11E7: Using Design to Show the World Your Truth with Dionna Dorsey and Production Designer Olivia Peebles

This episode of DB|BD features two extraordinary women from two seemingly different corners of the design world, Dionna Dorsey and Olivia Peebles.

Ellen McGirt|Audio

S11E6: Why an Inclusive Global Economy is a Redesign Project with Mastercard’s Shamina Singh

In this episode of DB|BD, Shamina Singh, the co-founder and president of Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth, explains why extreme poverty is the ultimate redesign challenge.

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