Lilly Smith

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Jason Murphy

“Inclusivity. That is the cliché. Where are they doing that?”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Ced Funches

“Admitting you may not be the best person to bring a vision to life is the hard part.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Briana Como

“We make an effort to be aware of and remove bias by focusing on behaviors instead of demographics when creating distinct personas.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Sarah Doody

“With anything we create, the first step in the design process must be to understand. This happens through research.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Richard Ting

Richard Ting, Global Chief Experience Officer at R/GA, continues our Chain Letters interview series.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Jessica Gaddis

This interview is part of a new Design Observer series, Chain Letters, in which we ask leading design minds a few burning questions—and so do their peers, for a year-long conversation about the state of the industry.

Lilly Smith|Books

Stefan Bucher’s Letterheads: A Zany but Totally Methodical Take on Reinvention

The designer explains why humor is a good tool, how to overcome artistic fears, and what he means by saying he’s a “Victorian gardener of the mind.”

Lilly Smith|Books

Recipe for Success

Unsung 20th century design hero Cipe Pineles shows how design makes the difference with a newly released book, Leave Me Alone with the Recipes, and has us asking, how exactly do you measure success?

Lilly Smith|Essays

For She Should Run, Politics Today are all About the Brand

Lesley Stordahl, Creative Director at CBX, explains how the design agency worked with non-profit group She Should Run to develop their brand and set strategies to meet lofty goals (like getting 250,000 women to run for elected office by …

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Assessing the Past; Looking Toward the Future

How the new AIGA Google Art Project “Across Borders: A Look at the Work of Latinx Designers” revealed insights about archived Latinx work of the past—and clues to its ascendance in the future of design.

Lilly Smith|Competitions

How to Judge a Book by its Cover

Announcing the 2016 50 Books | 50 Covers selections.

Lilly Smith|Essays

New Album, Old School: Branding The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach

“The appeal of my stuff is that it isn’t perfect. I don’t know how to use Illustrator. Some people are stoked by and some people are turned off by it.”