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Steven Heller|Books

My Pre-Holiday Dystopia Reading List

Steven Heller’s pre-holiday dystopia-lit reading list for people, like him, who can cope with the high anxiety these books will trigger.

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Lily Hansen|Interviews

How Phillip Nappi Started a Design Business When the Learning Curve was “Everything”

“If you’re a likable person who likes other people, you can do anything.”

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Lily Hansen|Interviews

Tattoo Artist Elisheba Israel on Decision-Making in a Permanent Craft

“Learning to take risks is one of the best things I’ve ever done.”

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The Editors|Books

Richard Bernstein: Starmaker

A gallery of pop stars from the pop art era.

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Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters from the Archive: Thomas Kail

Debbie talks to Hamilton director Thomas Kail about his career and about the joys of collaboration.

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Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 84: The Politician’s Gaze

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, a White House without culture, John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood, early Ivan Chermayeff book covers

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Steven Heller|Essays

Here Comes The Judge

A brief history of Supreme Court robe design.

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Lorraine Wild|Essays

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So, it’s 1966 and two guys are hanging around their Los Angeles apartment, musing about the sort of things that people mused about in the Sixties. The aesthetic philosophers in question were the artist Ed Ruscha and the artist/comedy …

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Jessica Helfand|Essays

The Look of Freedom

It was the American novelist William Faulkner who once observed that we must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. So who am I to take issue with more contemporary interpretations of commemorative form?

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Debbie Millman|Audio

Laurie Anderson

Debbie Millman brings artist Laurie Anderson live on stage to discuss her career, art, life, and politics.

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John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

The Remarkable Mr. Deeds

Work from an anonymous artist who self-identified only as ‘a patient at the State Lunatic Asylum in Nevada, Missouri around 1905.’

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Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

The Politics of Desire and Looting

The part designers have played in the London riots.

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Lee Moreau

The Past, Present and Future of Design with Lee Moreau, DB|BD Season 12 Finale

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The Wizards of AI are sad and lonely men