Arts + Culture

Michael Bierut|Essays

Learning to Draw with Jon Gnagy

“Mike looks like he might be a real artist!”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Assessing the Past; Looking Toward the Future

How the new AIGA Google Art Project “Across Borders: A Look at the Work of Latinx Designers” revealed insights about archived Latinx work of the past—and clues to its ascendance in the future of design.

Maya P. Lim|Books

Joan Miró: I Work Like a Gardener

“To work like a gardener was to create life itself—the autonomous life of a visual universe that, in [Miró’s] words, was a world set in motion.”

Julie Anixter|Essays

Speaking of Home: Saint Paul Skyways become Immigrant Portrait Gallery

“The goals of empowering new Americans, supporting diversity, and teaching tolerance are all critical to the long-term health of our city.”

Hannah Carlson|Essays

Fashion and Function at MoMA: Bernard Rudofsky’s “24 Pockets”

Not since the architect and social critic Bernard Rudofsky curated “Are Clothes Modern?” in 1944 has the MoMA addressed the contribution of apparel to the design arts.

Gregorio Amaro|Projects

“Digital Amoxtli ”: Interaction Design Can Be More than Just Fun and Games

Through designer Gregorio Amaro’s new project, which addresses death from a MesoAmerican perspective, we see how interaction design has the potential to create positive outcomes by addressing difficult subjects in new ways.

Ken Gordon|Essays

Narration vs. Curation: Deyan Sudjic, the Design Museum, and B Is for Bauhaus

To read a book is to stage an exhibition in one’s own imagination.

Tod Lippy|Exhibitions

Drawing Set

The art that happens when different creative disciplines and the general public collide.

Mark Kingsley|Essays

The Old Taylor Can’t Come to the Phone Right Now

Taylor Swift’s new album, Reputation, may aspire to high art; its cover design is most definitely a step toward the middle.

Steven Heller|Essays

Victims of the Image: Yellow Peril

Visual hazing in popular art and design of Asians was long maintained for different purposes.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

A Visual History of Lunchboxes

Back to school time with a visual history of lunchboxes.

Laura Flusche|Essays

Can a Design Museum Change the World?

Luba Lukova: Designing Justice spotlights critical social justice issues that currently dominate our socially and politically polarized news cycle, including health care, women’s rights, LGBT rights, immigration, gentrification, …