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Roger Martin|Report

Design Thinking Comes to the U.S. Army

Design is almost overnight the centerpiece of military doctrine and the U.S. Army has gotten design thinking quite right. The struggle to get design thinking ensconced in Army doctrine, though, is no easy feat.

Jane Margolies|Report

The Laugh Bug

Is Volkswagen's Fun Theory campaign anything more than a turbocharged marketing stunt?

Andy Chen|Essays

The Lines That Divide

The debate continues over who will be the new Head of Department for the Communication Art & Design course at London's Royal College of Art.

Rob Walker|Essays

Valuing $0

Lewis Hyde wrote The Gift decades ago for an audience of artists, writers and other people who create. Chris Anderson, cited Hyde’s work in his book Free, published last year.

Dirk Wachowiak|Interviews

Peter Bilak & Satya Rajpurohit: Interview on Typography

Dirk Wachowiak interviews Peter Bilak and Satya Rajpurohit on their recent collaboration, the Hindi version of Bilak’s Fedra.

Justin Kemerling|Essays

The Volunteer Design Chronicles (Lincoln, NE)

Community-focused pro-bono design activities in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Jessica Helfand|Report

Better Living Through Artistry

SEWA, a cooperative textile manufacturing company in Ahmedebad, India, is a network of self-employed women.

Daniel Stephens|Video

Aspen Design Summit: Film

This short film by GoodFocus Films captures participant perspectives at the Aspen Design Summit in November 2009.

Julie Lasky|Projects

DesigNYC

DesigNYC is the latest grass-roots organization to match socially minded designers with nonprofits.

Meredith Davis|Essays

Who Owns Student Work?

The prevailing opinion at many design schools is that faculty and the university have some “ownership rights” in the output of any class. In other words, students don't own their own work. An opposing viewpoint.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hands-On: The Gropius Touch

I couldn’t believe no one else had noticed that Ati Gropius Johansen was coming to the MoMA, and it seemed like a piece of history.

Tony Whitfield|Opinions

Prepared for Haiti

Tony Whitfield meditates on the assistance designers should give in Haiti following the earthquake, and in future catastrophes.