Category: Essays
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Seher Anand|Essays
Food branding without borders: chai, culture, and the politics of packaging
280 million people live outside their homelands. A new generation of brand designers is stepping up to foster cultural exchange — not extraction — across diasporas.
Sarah Gephart|Essays
A new alphabet for a shared lived experience
Nila Rezaei|Essays
"Dear mother, I made us a seat”: a Mother’s Day tribute to the women of Iran
Ellen McGirt|Books
Parable of the Redesigner
Soft rains come in spite of us.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Véronique Vienne : A Remembrance
Lee Moreau|Audio
Announcing: Design As Season Two
Ellen McGirt|Essays
The Design Observer annual gift guide!
The winter holidays are already a tricky time for so many people, though this year feels uniquely fraught.
Ellen McGirt|Essays
Gratitude? HARD PASS
We ask too much of gratitude.
L’Oreal Thompson Payton|Essays
‘Misogynoir is a distraction’: Moya Bailey on why Kamala Harris (or any U.S. president) is not going to save us
Ellen McGirt|Essays
I’m looking for a dad in finance
It’s Nobel Prize season. (Big dramatic sigh.)
Aimee Allison|Audio
She the People with Aimee Allison, a new podcast from Design Observer
Kevin Bethune|Essays
Oh My, AI
Adobe customers believed that a recent update to the terms of service meant that the company would use their work to train AI models.
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