Category: Essays
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Jessica Helfand|Essays
The Look of Freedom
It was the American novelist William Faulkner who once observed that we must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. So who am I to take issue with more contemporary interpretations of commemorative form?
Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays
The Politics of Desire and Looting
The part designers have played in the London riots.
Steven Heller|Essays
Should A Designer Be Judged By Ideology?
Should designers and illustrators be judged harshly for choosing to make art on the wrong side of history?
Mary Badon|Essays
Red Light, Green Light: The Invention of the Traffic Signal
The traffic light — invented in 1912 by a policeman in Detroit — has radically impacted the way transportation rules have developed over the past 100 years, all over the world.
Justine Jablonska|Essays
A Peek Into Poster House
Ten posters from the Poster House collection, selected by Chief Curator Angelina Lippert.
Steven Heller|Essays
Happiness of Chalk Talk
“Drawn lines are simple things in themselves, yet what power of expression in a few of them appropriately combined!”
James Cartwright|Essays
Flipping the Script
How two progressive organizations, Tactical 2017 and Flippable, use open-source data and strategic voting, and why that might dictate the future of our elections.
Steven Heller|Essays
Cleaning Up Sanitation
The story of New York City’s Sanitation Department, the vanilla trucks, and the lower case Helvetica.
Kathleen Meaney|Essays
Wing It: Testing Out Exhibit Design Using Virtual Reality
The field of environmental (or experiential) graphic design is young and on fire.
Steven Heller|Essays
A Bee C: Paul Rand’s Bee Fixation
The 1981 Eye-Bee-M rebus is Paul Rand’s most iconic poster.
Steven Heller|Essays
A Short Definition of Timelessness
Time may be concrete and abstract, but in terms of design, timelessness is imposed. It is a critical and subjective, yet generally agreed upon label for style—or lack of style.
Steven Heller|Essays
The Times. A Comic Strip. A Pulitzer Prize.
It is not every day that a comic strip wins the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning—come to think of it, there’s never been one.
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