Rob Walker
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Rob Walker|Essays
Infrastructure Field Trips
The Macro City conference in the Bay Area includes "field trips" to examine "overlooked networks of infrastructure that surrounds us," firsthand.
Rob Walker|Essays
Object Vs. Object
The Re Made Plunger satirizes the Best Made axe — a great example of object-as-critique.
Rob Walker|Essays
Object in the News: The Face Privatizer
Tabloid-press subject Vanessa Stiviano makes fascinating (mis)use of a sun visor as media-age privatizer.
Rob Walker|Essays
Boris, Subverted
The Neighborhood Watch symbol Boris The Burglar is powerfully familiar; what does that mean when it's subverted?
Rob Walker|Essays
A Security Camera Worth Looking At
A thoughtful take on what security cameras should look like, and why.
Rob Walker|Essays
Personal Packaging
Fondly revisiting the look and feel of the mixtape.
Rob Walker|Essays
Hale County Revisited
An in-depth look at Hale County, Alabama, an accidental social-design laboratory.
Rob Walker|Essays
Mona Lisa Selfies
Inevitably, the famous Mona Lisa has crossed paths with the selfie — and the results are charming.
Rob Walker|Essays
Is Design Benign?
Why taking a 3D-printed gun seriously is helpful way to shake the design-is-benign paradigm.
Rob Walker|Essays
Seeing The Problem
How a graphic communication campaign could help us address a real electoral map crisis: Gerrymandering 2.0.
Rob Walker|Insights Per Minute
Rob Walker on Seeing
Rob Walker is a technology/culture columnist for Yahoo News. He is the former Consumed columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and has contributed to many publications.
Rob Walker|Essays
No. 1 Object
A brief appreciation of a perfectly absurd object: The Number One Hand