Rob Walker

Rob Walker|Essays

An Accidental Time Capsule

Snapshots of late-September 2001 signage reveal a tentative American moment.

Rob Walker|Essays

Looking Better, All The Time

Alexandra Horowitz' book On Looking offers a framework, and specific tactics, for smarter seeing.

Rob Walker|Miscellaneous

The Mighty Shirt Kings

Back in the 1980s, a group of artists calling themselves The Mighty Shirt Kings set up shop at the Jamaica Coliseum, in Queens, offering “custom air-brushed and original artwork,” which could be had on canvas, but also …

Rob Walker|Projects

Object Lessons

Object Lessons is a new project that concerns itself with “the hidden lives of ordinary things.”

Rob Walker|Essays

The Hyperdocumented Sunset Strip

Using Google Street View Hyperlapse to revisit Ruscha’ Sunset Strip.

Rob Walker|Essays

Finding The Story

Emily Spivack's exhibition of unexpectedly interesting stories from eBay.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Medium Is The Mail

Jill Stoll combines artistic ritual, creative reuse, and the postal service as connector.

Rob Walker|Essays

Rob Walker|Essays

Bill for a Bowl

Considering dollar value as one of many things a bowl might contain.

Rob Walker|Essays

Google Image Search Results, Abstracted and Animated

Rob Walker has created a video of his image abstraction Tumblr.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Panic Option

A rental car's key fob design emphasizes "Panic" over all other options. Is that really a good idea?

Rob Walker|Essays

Let’s Make A Mark

Ellen Susan proposes a new punctuation mark, the ElRey, for the digital-text era.