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Cheryl Heller|Essays

Social Design Helped Women Win Equality in Iceland. And So?

Forty-three years ago, Icelandic women used social design principles to implement "The Long Friday" strike for gender equity. As Cheryl Heller explains, the past has never felt more present.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Steven Pinker

Debbie talks to experimental psychologist and author Steven Pinker about measuring human happiness.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S4E1: Stella Bugbee

Stella Bugbee is the editor in chief and president of New York Magazine’s The Cut.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Design Comb Over

Hair is more than a fibrous protein. Hair is who we are, or at least what we project we are. Hair defines personal brand identity.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Critical Olympics

What the best sports commentary does is just like criticism: it makes you care about the previously abstract.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 74: Eyes and Hands

Cræft by Alexander Langlands, doctors and design, Sean Tejaratchi’s LiarTown, a pair of iRi NYC sneakers

Michael Bierut|Essays

Speech, Speech

The State of the Union Address is tonight. Messages, big ideas, careful details, second-guessing, refinements and revisions, anonymity: graphic design has a lot in common with political speechwriting. What kind of client do you suppose the …

Michael Bierut|Essays

Vladimir Nabokov: Father of Hypertext?

The innovative narrative technique developed by Vladimir Nabokov for his 1962 novel Pale Fire—essentially a single epic poem with footnotes and commentary—anticipated hypertext, the internet, and the interconnected world of …

Steven Heller|Interviews

Making Inaccessibility Accessible

If you subscribe to the belief that good design makes life better, then there can be no better use of design than as an aid—if not a curative—for the disabled.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 69: Fixes and Facelifts

Fixing American democracy, Snøhetta’s plan for Philip Johnson’s AT&T Building, Internetting With Amanda Hess, Synoptical History of the Civil War

Michael Bierut|Essays

Everything I Know About Design I Learned from The Sopranos

After eight years, 86 episodes, and untold quantities of gobbagool, The Sopranos finished its run on HBO. And this is what we’ve learned, from a design point of view.