Rob Walker

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