Category: Essays
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Steven Heller|Essays
Living In History
If we care about design history, we should embrace the ghosts that live in and around all of us.
Jessica Barness|Essays
Dancin’ to a New Tune: The Subversive, Entrepreneurial Flexi Disc
The story of the flexi disc vinyl record is an intertwining of manufacturing, form, content, and publication.
Steven Heller|Essays
Second Rate Prime Time: TV News and Talk Show Sets
A brief look back at the evolving nightly news set.
Ken Gordon|Essays
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and the Future of Transportation: A Muggle’s View
Some thoughts on the evolving nature of travel.
James Cartwright|Essays
Can Demagogues be Designed out of Democracy?
Dutch transition designer Rudy van Belkom and Irish digital design agency FrontEnd are leading the charge to combat democratic dissatisfaction. Is it a pipe dream, or can we design a different way?
Steven Heller|Essays
Thanks, Robert Grossman
Bob’s death was unexpected. I felt kicked in the stomach when, on Friday morning, I read an email from his companion, Elaine Louie, announcing the tragic news.
Steven Heller|Essays
A Day Trip Into Darkness
It is 3:13 on Monday morning in Krakow, Poland. It is dark out. I cannot sleep.
Cheryl Heller|Essays
Social Design Helped Women Win Equality in Iceland. And So?
Forty-three years ago, Icelandic women used social design principles to implement "The Long Friday" strike for gender equity. As Cheryl Heller explains, the past has never felt more present.
Steven Heller|Essays
Fear Of Phallus
In my case, on average of twice a week, editors accused me of allowing one or more illustrators to include an unacceptable banana, kidney, or lozenge shape — and I’m talking about a plain old curvilinear-tipped graphic …
Olivia Coetzee|Essays
Use Only as Directed: Safety is not Always Safe
The safety pin, the safety match, the safety razor: are these objects as safe as their names suggest?
Steven Heller|Essays
The Design Comb Over
Hair is more than a fibrous protein. Hair is who we are, or at least what we project we are. Hair defines personal brand identity.
Alexandra Lange|Essays
The Critical Olympics
What the best sports commentary does is just like criticism: it makes you care about the previously abstract.
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