Books

Robert Finkel|Books

The IBM Poster Program

IBM’s mid-century corporate creative direction usually brings to mind Paul Rand, but it’s staff graphic designers and photographers developed posters as a platform for elevating internal communications and initiatives within …

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E4: Na Kim

Na Kim is an associate creative director at the book publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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.

Ellen Lupton|Terms of Service

Confidence Equity

Are we born with confidence, or do we earn it? If we don’t have it, how can we get it?

Thomas Rinaldi|Books

Origins of Design Patents

Although the story of design patents is closely intertwined with that of industrial design, in fact design patents predate the emergence of industrial design as an organized professional discipline by nearly a century.

Mike Meyers|Books

Sign Painting

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

Ulises Carrión|Books

The New Art of Making Books

Founded in Philadelphia in 2016, Ulises is a collectively run art bookstore and exhibition space, who edited the recently published Publishing As Practice.

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.

Sean Adams|Books

How Design Makes Us Think

An excerpt from Sean Adams’ new book "How Design Makes Us Think".

Augusta Pownall|Books

Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer

An interview with Richard Poulin, the long-overdue first comprehensive monograph of Rudolph de Harak’s work.

Common|Books

Covering Black America

Decades ago, the great artist, poet, musician, and author Gil Scott-Heron famously proclaimed, “The revolution will not be televised.” He was right...It was, however, delivered monthly to newsstands and Black homes within …

Steven Heller|Essays

A Month With President Obama

I spent last month, approximately three hours-a-night, seven-days-a-week, with President Barack H. Obama.