Rob Walker

Rob Walker|Essays

Imagine To Me

Creative writers respond to MoMA's "Talk To Me," imaginatively.

Rob Walker|Essays

More Google Image Fun

Parsing Google Image search results for fresh meaning — and fun.

Rob Walker|Interviews

An Interview with Kevin Slavin

A conversation between Rob Walker and co-founder of the game development company Area/Code, Kevin Slavin.

Rob Walker|Essays

Pictures of the Familiar

Why do we photograph extensively documented icons and monuments?

Rob Walker|Essays

Quirky and "Design" as Entertainment

Quirky tries to make "design" into entertainment. Is that a good idea?

Rob Walker|Essays

Stealth Iconography: The Waveform

The rise of the waveform as a visual signifier of music.

Rob Walker|Essays

Monkey or Drone?

Photography settles into the era of Annoying Facebook Girl, the drone, and the monkey.

Rob Walker|Essays

Graphic Design, Valued

Is an aesthetically pleasing annual report a signal of financial health?

Rob Walker|Essays

Wear And Tear

Designing something that is meant to be lived with vs. designing something that is meant to be replaced: How to think about wear and tear.

Rob Walker|Essays

Ruscha Vs. Street View

Car as medium, rotating motorized camera, a series of contiguous horizontal images of buildings and the street on which they are situated: Ed Ruscha, or Google Street View? 

Rob Walker|Essays

A Simple Tool, or the Value of "Oh yeah"

In its not-noisy way, the simple Flickr tool Time Capsule pushes back against a problematic side-effect of digital culture.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Work of Art in the Age of Googled Reproduction

Ask Google for an image of "Mona Lisa," and what do you get? Maybe the answer is an artwork unto itself.