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An Open Letter to AIGA|Opinions

Status Quo or Transformation? A False Choice

An open letter to AIGA.

Jez Owen|Reviews

Branding Terror

A review of Branding Terror, a new book by Artur Beifuss and Francesco Trivini Bellini.

Observed|Essays

Design Is One

Opening Friday at the IFC center: Design is One — Lella and Massimo Vignelli.

Andrew Shea|Essays

Shaping Design Education at LEAP Symposium

A review by Andrew Shea of the recent, September 19-24, 2013, LEAP symposium at Art Center College of Design.

Stephen Eskilson|Essays

Heteronormative Design Discourse

The question of sexual identity, a central focus of a great deal of thought in recent decades, has received scant attention in the design world.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Learning New Tricks

Harvard doesn't have any design courses, but I've found new friends in "material culture." What it's like for a critic to go back to school.

Steven Heller|Insights Per Minute

Steven Heller on Recommendations

Steven Heller is the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and the SVA Masters Workshop in Rome. He is a prolific writer.

Natalie Foster|Insights Per Minute

Natalie Foster on Sharing

Natalie Foster is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Peers.

Cheryl Heller|Essays

Forget Poverty. Let’s Talk Business.

In a recent article on the future of design, I used Paul Polak as a case for why generalists are so important to the world right now.

Mark Lamster|Insights Per Minute

Mark Lamster on Complaining

Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture.

Alice Twemlow|Insights Per Minute

Alice Twemlow on Home

Alice Twemlow is the co-founder and chair of a two-year graduate program in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is also a PhD candidate in the History of Design department at the Royal College of Art, …

Rob Walker|Insights Per Minute

Rob Walker on Seeing

Rob Walker is a technology/culture columnist for Yahoo News. He is the former Consumed columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and has contributed to many publications.