Arts + Culture

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

The Wood Stacker

All his work, from cutting the wood during the summer, to stacking it in early fall, through to burning it in the winter freed him from a dependency on oil. His heat is local.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Notes from the Road: Part 2

Over a career that spans more than six decades, David Pease has built a body of work that is anchored by a methodical studio practice.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Notes from the Road: Part 1

A story of how logic meets chance, how memory engenders narrative, how observation seeds curiosity, cues language, and sparks form.

Emilie Baltz|Observer Quarterly

Creativity in Food Experience

Food, like exceptional dance, can be of incredible pleasure not only because it stimulates our senses, but also because it is  a portal into an intimate relationship with ourselves.

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Nine

Lightbulb-headed naked dolls, Butter! Eggs! Lemons! Type = theatre, how the light falls in Paris + more.

Steven Heller|Essays

I Still Wish I Were a Beatle

The Beatles have, over the course of my lifetime, become attached to my nerve endings. It’s a curious sensation, but one I’m glad I still have.

Josh Kun|Observer Quarterly

Atomic Cafe

The L.A. punk scene’s after-hours headquarters

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Eight

George Melies, the art of the mannequin, Franz Lizst, the Bourgeois + more.

Justin Zhuang|Observer Quarterly

The Design of Sharing Food in a Connected World

Eating, or the journey that food takes to get into our mouths (and even within our bodies), is a logistical issue many of us take for granted.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

A Good Pan Is Hard To Find

On baking a cheesecake and becoming a better designer: it’s one big balancing act of artistry and skill.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Signs of Labor

In honor of this week’s national celebration of Labor Day, a selection of images that personify the hard work and dedication of the American worker.

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Coney Island of The Mind

It’s late August and your shirt sticks to your back. The only escape is….the beach.