The Editors

The Editors|Essays

Chicago International Poster Biennial

Chicago International Poster Biennial, poster design by Yann Legendre, 2008Posters, so beloved by graphic designers everywhere, have never felt at home in the United States. The European poster tradition, from Toulouse-Lautrec to Cassandre …

The Editors|Miscellaneous

Slide Shows on Design Observer

The Editors|Miscellaneous

Slide Shows on Design Observer

The Editors|Slideshows

The Next Page: Thirty Tables of Contents

Last year, on the occasion of "Next," the AIGA's Biennial National Design Conference in Denver, Design Observer published a little book, The Next Page: Thirty Tables of Contents. For our readers not in attendance, we are sharing it here as …

The Editors|Essays

Marc Rabinowitz: Prostitution Facts

Marc Rabinowitz, Design to Touch Humanity, Prostitution Facts shown amidst Village Voice escort ads, 2007In spite of the barrage of wisecracks this week involving the tawdry glamour of "high-priced call girls," it's important to remember …

The Editors|Miscellaneous

Design Observer Job Board

Design Observer is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Coroflot to offer a Job Board on our site. (You will find access to the job board in our right-hand column.) Given the large and diverse audience here, we hope this new …

The Editors|Miscellaneous

Books Received: Winter 2008

New books have been piling up here at Design Observer. We thought we'd share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months — with a few older titles just stumbled upon. We hope you will find a …

The Editors|Essays

Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Paul Rand, played by Jack Nicholson.There's a great line in the Oscar-nominated film Juno in which the title character, contemplating the sort of family she'd like for her unborn child, resists the notion of "wholesome," telling her …

The Editors|Essays

Design Observer Party: Denver, October 12

It is now a Design Observer tradition to host the best party at the AIGA Biennal Conference. It's usually off-site in some sleazy neighborhood far from the conference center. The music is too loud. And Design Observer writers and …

The Editors|Essays

Two New Contributing Writers

It was always our intent for Design Observer to include many voices, and we've published over thirty guest observers in the past year. Two writers have become frequent observers in recent months, and we are delighted to introduce them as …

The Editors|Essays

Two New Contributing Writers

It was always our intent for Design Observer to include many voices, and we've published over thirty guest observers in the past year. Two writers have become frequent observers in recent months, and we are delighted to introduce them as …

The Editors|Essays

2006 Holiday Reading List

The holidays are always a great time to catch up with reading, and to make gifts to friends and relatives. We've put together a list of some of our favorite books — recent and not so recent — by Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter & George …