Business

Michael Bierut|Audio

S6E7: Valla Vakili

Valla Vakili is head of Citi Ventures Studio, an incubator for financial services.

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

Should Book Publishing Leave New York City?

America’s publishing trade took root and flourished in New York because the city’s cultural and geographic conditions created an optimal environment for that to happen.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S6E10: Bon Ku

Dr. Bon Ku is assistant dean for health and design at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

Michael Bierut|Audio

From the Archive: Lee Moreau

Lee Moreau is Vice President of Design at EPAM Continuum, a global design and innovation consultancy based in Boston. He is also a visiting lecturer at MIT where he teaches design strategy and innovation.

Steven Heller|Essays

When Good Humor Ice Cream was Hot

The audio rebranding of Good Humor ice cream.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Beeple

Beeple began creating a new piece of art each day with his aptly titled “everydays” series.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S9E3: Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is an artist, activist, and founder of the Rolling Jubilee and the Debt Collective. Her latest book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Best of Design Matters: Amy Webb

Named “one of the five women changing the world” by Forbes—Amy Webb advises CEOs of the world’s most-admired companies, three-star admirals and generals, and the senior leadership of central banks and …

Nancy Sharon Collins|Interviews

Mount Street Printers

Specialty printing shops are special, indeed.

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Fintech

Balancing all that is economic with all that’s ergonomic, designers are creative (by nature) and capitalists (by necessity).

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Exciting Multi-Generational Moment

An essay and slideshow on the design of James Joyce’s Ulysses by my mother, Martha Scotford, appears on Design Observer, where I was recently made a contributing writer.

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 …