Interviews

Ellen McGirt|Interviews

The face, reconsidered

Alexis Haut|Education

‘Thoughts & Prayers’ & bulletproof desks: Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari on filming the active shooter preparedness industry

HBO’s new documentary, helmed by two lauded photographers-turned-parents, excavates the $3B market born from America’s school shooting problem.

Ellen McGirt|Design Juice

Making ‘change’ the product: Phil Gilbert on transforming IBM from the inside out

Phil Gilbert shares how he transformed IBM’s culture, and why treating change like a premium product may be essential in an AI-driven future.

Alexis Haut|Interviews

How production designer Grace Yun turned domestic spaces into horror in 'Hereditary' and heartache in 'Past Lives'

Grace Yun, production designer of Hereditary and Past Lives, on how she builds worlds where fear, memory, and emotion take physical form.

Alexis Haut|Interviews

Beauty queenpin: ‘Deli Boys’ makeup head Nesrin Ismail on cosmetics as masks and mirrors

Glamour enlivens heritage and history in Hulu’s genre-bending series about a Pakistani family running an international drug ring from Philly corner stores.

Rachel Paese|Design Juice

Sound designer Eddie Gandelman on composing a quieter future

As our everyday, man-made products compete to be the most earsplitting, this sonic experience designer is trading in the “needle pricks” for spatial reverb, wood tapping, and bird song.

Ellen McGirt|Audio

Making Space: Jon M. Chu on Designing Your Own Path

Delaney Rebernik|Design Juice

Runway modeler: Airport architect Sameedha Mahajan on sending ever-more people skyward

The first-gen immigrant and second-gen architect says the best airports for our brave new world will blend wayfinding, cultural context, and, sometimes, a smaller footprint.

Delaney Rebernik|Books

‘Designed Forests’ author Dan Handel says design is behind our experiences in nature

We are the humans. We speak for the trees. Sometimes, out both sides of our mouths.

L’Oreal Thompson Payton|Books

Less is liberation: Christine Platt talks Afrominimalism and designing a spacious life

When the author and advocate learned to live with — and do — less, she found so much more.

L’Oreal Thompson Payton|Design Juice

Cheryl Durst on design, diversity, and defining her own path

Cheryl S. Durst, Hon. FIIDA is no stranger to making history.

Jessica Helfand|Interviews

Josef Koudelka, Next: A Visual Biography: Ten Questions for Melissa Harris

“It was essential that I humanize Koudelka and extricate him from the more reductive and pedestaled realm of myth where so many position him," says Harris.