Category: Opinions

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

The Wandering Center of Our Attention

What is attention? The answer hasn’t always been clear to me.

Steven Heller|Opinions

Thoughts on Gun Design

Guns are as American as apple and chicken pot pie. And they are not just loved for security or sport, but for the look and feel — the design.

Steven Heller|Opinions

Spielberg’s Post Is Flawed

Spoiler Alert: Steven Heller digs into the production of Steven Spielberg’s “The Post”.

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

The Architecture of Graphic Design’s Discourse

Graphic design’s theoretical canon is newsprint thin.

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

How We Read Matters

We are responsible for the consequences of the way we choose to read.

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

De-specializing Design Education

Certification represents an assurance of quality, but also implies exclusivity. What about design?

Ashleigh Axios|Opinions

To Be a Design-Led Company

Over the last 10 years, design-led companies have maintained significant stock market advantage, outperforming the S&P by an extraordinary 211%.

Cheryl Heller|Opinions

Dear Jeff Bezos, Have You Ever Been to the Amazon?

It wouldn’t really be that hard to save the Amazon. Especially for you.

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

Empathy in Book Publishing

On The intersection of customer empathy and book publishing.

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

Privilege-Centered Design

“The reader you construct in your imagination changes the way you write almost without your noticing it.”

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

What’s in a Name: How The Title “Art Director” Limits the Role of Design in Publishing

“So, what does an art director do anyway?”

Sara Duell|Opinions

Women's March on Washington: strong in number, but how about design?

On this International Womens Day Sara Duell considers the Women’s March on Washington logo