Category: Essays

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Steven Heller|Essays

A Month With President Obama

I spent last month, approximately three hours-a-night, seven-days-a-week, with President Barack H. Obama.

Susan Morris|Essays

Observed at DOC NYC 2020

Of the more than 200 films at the 2020 DOC NYC festival, the largest documentary film festival in the U.S., films centering on design and the built environment highlighted the themes of obsession, the passage of time, and the city as …

Steven Heller|Essays

Peter Bradford, American Modern

Steven Heller remembers Peter Bradford, American Modern.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Bounty of Thanksgiving 2020

Thanksgiving day marks the quiet before the storm, when life assumes a commodified celebratory pace until my least favorite holiday, New Year’s Eve, restarts the cycle again.

Steven Heller|Essays

On Being Displaced

I felt queasy entering my office last Friday for the first time in almost nine months, since the Covid-19 lockdown in mid-March.

George Aye|Essays

How We Shook Up the World’s Oldest Student Design Competition

A story in Design Observer started a life-changing collaboration between the RSA in London and a small design studio in Chicago, Illinois.

Steven Heller|Essays

A Brief Plea for EZ VOTE

Steven Heller wonders why some ambitious design-engineer-programmer has not yet invented the EZ-Pass reader or Global Entry kiosk equivalent for voters — EZ Vote.

Steven Heller|Essays

Power Through Restraint

In my memory, the newspaper of record has never unleashed such a full-bore graphic condemnation of a sitting president in an entire section, particularly where the photography and typography were so damn elegantly art directed.

Jessica Arana|Essays

Latinx Cultural Agency And Design Education

We urge design educators to adopt a different approach to design instruction — one that challenges traditional design canons, histories, and perspectives, capturing the realities of students from a variety of cultural landscapes.

Steven Heller|Essays

Reverse Migration: A Growing Pain

I am a rock ribbed, original New Yawka.

Sara Jamshidi|Essays

Design + Emotions: Part II

Type by itself may not always be sufficient in igniting change, or even the approachable or proper medium. But at its best, type becomes a platform. It inspires change.