Category: Essays

Tucker Viemeister|Essays

Too Fancy

Susan Morris|Essays

Tribeca, Sheffield Documentary, and Sunny Side of the Doc Film Festivals

A recent crop of film festivals — Tribeca Festival (U.S.), Sheffield Documentary Festival (U.K.), and Sunny Side of the Docs (France) — showcased films that rambled through cities, making us aware of the physical …

Sarah Fonder|Essays

Accessibility and Innovation at iF Design

Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellow Karen Korellis Reuther picks some of her favorite iF Design Award gold medal winners.

Richard Baird|Essays

LogoArchive pLAy

LogoArchive began by documenting the forms, form language, and meaning-making that developed out of mid-century modernist identity programs.

Laura Scherling|Essays

Rethinking Sustainable Luxury Fashion and Supply Chain Design

Persistent questions around sustainability and representation have long plagued the fashion industry.

Susan Morris|Essays

Observed at Hot Docs 2021

The Hot Docs Film Festival from Canada is the largest documentary festival in North America screening over 200 international films.

Susan Morris|Essays

Design + Architecture at SXSW

Susan Morris rounds up the design and architecture films at SXSW, including The Queens Gambit, Mau, Lily Topples the World, and Them.

Susan Morris|Essays

Design+ at Sundance, Slamdance, and the NYFF

One of the conveniences of the pandemic has been the ability to watch film festivals from the comfort of home — no waiting in queues, no schlepping in the snow, no talking in the audience.

Laetitia Wolff|Essays

Design is Capital: Five Lessons I Learned from Lille

Useful ingredients to bring design to cities.

Elizabeth Lowrey|Essays

The Workplace Recalibrated – Hybrid Working Will Drive Everything

How do workplaces get from where they were to where they need to be?

Steven Heller|Essays

Teaching The “S” Word

Steven Heller|Essays

The Thrill is Gone: A Collector’s Lament

The thrill of the hunt has been replaced by the ease of Ebay and Etsy. The joy of the browse is now a trudge through a recent spate of online book fairs.