Business

Michael Bierut|Essays

Jerry Della Femina, Mad Men, and the Cult of Advertising Personality

A review of Jerry Della Femina’s From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor, published in a new edition on the occasion of the debut of the fourth season of the AMC series Mad Men.

Michael Erard|Projects

The Dream Job Project Part II

How do you conceive of the future work to shoot for, and how you'll do it? The results of these questions, part II.

The Editors|Miscellaneous

Humanitarian Design vs. Design Imperialism: Debate Summary

Bruce Nussbaum started a firestorm with the question "Is humanitarian design the new imperialism?" — and the conversation has spread through the blogosphere. Here, a digest of essays and related posts on this subject.

Constantin Boym|Essays

Teaching in a Time of Uncertainty

Meditation on the doubt creeping into today's design practice.

Jessica Helfand|Primary Sources

The Next Great Graphic Designer

Tonight on Bravo's "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" the winning Penguin book cover design will be unveiled, which begs a few questions. We hope our readers will weigh in with their opinions.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

“We Can’t Really Pay”

All of you print people who scorned bloggers but have moved into blogging and helm publications that “blog,” earth to you: You don’t pay.

Ernest Beck|Report

Catapult Design: How to Run a Design Firm for Social Change

Catapult Design’s nonprofit model offers a new way to think about how designers can engage social innovation projects.

Ernest Beck|Reviews

New Meaning at ICFF

A review of the 2010 International Contemporary Furniture Fair.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

It Was All Yellow

In Buying In, author Rob Walker avoids talking about the aesthetics of the Livestrong bracelet.

Allan Chochinov|Event-Bellagio

Bellagio Design Symposium: Core77 Report

Allan Chochinov of Core77, sums up his experience at the Bellagio Design Symposium, the annual Salone Del Mobile Furniture Fair in Milan and being hostage to the whims of a volcano.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On Inksie: Good Design is Aesthetic

I was asked by the editors of Inksie to write about Dieter Rams and his ten principles for good design. Luckily they assigned me my favorite

William Drenttel|Projects

Design for Change Contest

Kiran Bir Sethi is a designer, teacher, principal, advocate and social entrepreneur. Now her “Design for Change Contest,” a recent initiative that swept India in 2009, is expanding globally.