Arts + Culture

Susan Morris|Essays

Tribeca, Sheffield Documentary, and Sunny Side of the Doc Film Festivals

A recent crop of film festivals — Tribeca Festival (U.S.), Sheffield Documentary Festival (U.K.), and Sunny Side of the Docs (France) — showcased films that rambled through cities, making us aware of the physical …

Richard Baird|Essays

LogoArchive pLAy

LogoArchive began by documenting the forms, form language, and meaning-making that developed out of mid-century modernist identity programs.

Laura Scherling|Essays

Rethinking Sustainable Luxury Fashion and Supply Chain Design

Persistent questions around sustainability and representation have long plagued the fashion industry.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters From the Archive: Miranda July

Writer, director, and actress Miranda July discusses the surreality of releasing a surreal movie in an even more surreal time.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E5: Lucia Lucas

Lucia Lucas is a baritone who made her U.S. debut in 2019 at Tulsa Opera as Don Giovanni.

Susan Morris|Essays

Observed at Hot Docs 2021

The Hot Docs Film Festival from Canada is the largest documentary festival in North America screening over 200 international films.

Susan Yelavich|Books

Beings: Unruly Things, Golems, Cyborgs

Stories of the supranatural would seem to be among those childish things it is long time we put away. But somehow we never do.

Connect 4|Audio

Victor Newman and Ana Amaro: Becoming an Animator

In this episode, hear student Ana Amaro and her mentor, creative director Victor Newman talk about how they each found their calling and first encountered their animated favorites.

Mike Meyers|Books

Sign Painting

In the last ten years or so we have truly witnessed a resurgence of the sign painter’s craft.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Futura

Across 50 years in the art scene, Futura has undergone a brilliant evolution from graffiti prodigy to design master.

Adrian Shaughnessy|Terms of Service

Pan Afrikan Design Institute

In this month’s Terms of Service, Adrian Shaughnessy explores contemporary African graphic design.

Jason Hill|Books

Artist as Reporter

In the 1940s the New York daily newspaper PM’s experimented with the then already "lost art" of sketch reporting.