Twenty Years of Design Observer

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Globalism

Looking back to look forward: Over more than a decade, Change Observer reported on everything from equality in Iceland, to efficiency in Chile, from luxury in Morocco, to death in Mexico. From Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, India + Cuba, we …

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Politics

Not everything is design, but design is about everything, Michael Bierut once explained. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Advocacy

At its core, advocacy is an art of creative benevolence: to advocate for someone (or something) is at once an act of generosity and a form of compassion, a mark of conscience and an expression of citizenship.

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Architecture

Architecture invites the study of personality and voice, of economics and choice. It asks us to consider art and artifice, to challenge blight and to question ego, to revisit all that’s iconic and seductive, and to reimagine what it …

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Art

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Science

Like designers in their attention to sentient observation, scientists are trained to ask penetrating questions.