Arts + Culture

Alexandra Lange|Essays

DWR = D/R?

Like D/R in the late 1970s, DWR is suffering from over-expansion, loss of specialness, and the lack of a leader with personal design vision.

Mark Lamster|Essays

"Compelling" & "Important": The L.A. Times Praises Master of Shadows

Good book reviews are rarities to be prized in these days of shuttered newspapers and diminished book coverage. By good I don't simply mean positive.

Owen Edwards|Essays

Busted by Colombo, or, the Impediments of Style

The restrained high style of the ad men in Mad Men has revived a painful memory of one of my life-changing moments.

Aspen Editors|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit Report: UNICEF Menstruation Challenge

At the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the UNICEF Menstruation Challenge Project proposed an “eco-system” whereby sanitary pads became a linchpin for local economic …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Look Again

When visiting the Eero Saarinen exhibit at Museum of the City of New York, be sure to look at the photographs from Look Magazine.

Aspen Editors|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit Report: UNICEF and Early Childhood Development

At the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the UNICEF Early Childhood Development Project proposed a new approach to emergency kits that would be more precisely tuned to young …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Dankuwel Antwerpen!

This is a good week to be thankful and I am especially grateful to everyone who made the launch of De meester van de schaduw in Antwerp such a success.

Aspen Editors|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit Report: Sustainable Food and Childhood Obesity

At the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the Sustainable Food Project focused on accelerating the shift from a global, abstract food system to a regional, real food system via a robust …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Stuffed

We are hosting our first Thanksgiving, so I'm too busy thinking about food.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Stuffed

We are hosting our first Thanksgiving, so I'm too busy thinking about food.

Dona Ann McAdams|Gallery

Milking It

Dona Ann McAdams photograph featured in an exhibition at the Opalka Gallery in Albany, New York.

Aspen Editors|Event-Aspen

Aspen Design Summit: Initial Report

Initial report on the 2009 Aspen Design Summit, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute.