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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.
Jessica Helfand|Observer Quarterly
Tonight’s Specials
A menu is an inventory, an index, a list—but it’s also a kind of social history, telling us what we ate, where we ate it, and how much we paid for the privilege of doing so.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Cock-a-Doodle-Don't
Where food is concerned, the relationship between what things look like and how we respond exists at its most primal level: what is a gut reaction, after all, if not something that attacks your gut?
Mark Lamster|Essays
How to Design an Iconic NY Fast Food Joint
Design secrets of New York fast food icons.
Jessica Helfand|Essays
Audrey Real Helfand: Designer Manquée
Fifty years ago, my mother Audrey was a prolific visual maker: today, she’d be running her own studio.
Adam Harrison Levy|Interviews
An Interview With Philip Glass
In 2005, Adam Harrison Levy interviewed Philip Glass for a BBC documentary film about Chuck Close. Glass was seated in front of the monumental painting Phil. This is their exchange.
Debbie Millman|Audio
Design Matters from the Archive: Isaac Mizrahi
Debbie talks to Isaac Mizrahi about why he loves fashion and why he does so many things outside of fashion.
Steven Heller|Essays
Mad Music
Back to a time before art, design, and humor had to be sophisticated to be good.
Rick Poynor|Essays
The Art of Punk and the Punk Aesthetic
Punk has two graphic histories: Punk: An Aesthetic and The Art of Punk. What conclusions do they draw?
Jessica Helfand|Essays
The Karaoke Effect
The illusory bubble populated by thousands of fame-seekers who fervently believe in their own righteous, if highly fictional talent.
Debbie Millman|Audio
Design Matters from the Archive: Julia Turshen
Debbie talks to Julia about cooking and writing, and how to peel a hard-boiled egg.
Michael Bierut|Audio
Mind-Body Problems
Nutrition Facts, Mark Bittman’s food rating system, colon cancer screening, Time Well Spent, Peter Arno, Flat File
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