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Jessica Helfand|Essays

Open Letter to Design Students Everywhere

My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I …

John Thackara|Essays

Make Sense, Not Stuff

John Thackara presents a three-step plan to connect design schools to the green economy.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Dave Eggers

McSweeney’s Founder Dave Eggars is also the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity! and What Is The What.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Dee Dee Gordon

Dee Dee Gordon is a renowned youth culture expert whose research has been featured in numerous media outlets including The New York Times Magazine.

John Cantwell|Essays

Trump, The Logo

The logo above the Trump Tower’s main entrance, huge and gleaming in 34-inch brass block letters, bluntly announces Donald Trump’s presence on the street. It’s crude, perhaps, but undeniably effective. In a neighborhood …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Allan Chochinov

On this episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, Debbie speaks with Allan Chochinov, editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website.

Michael Bierut|Slideshows

Invasion of the Neutered Sprites

There is an epidemic threatening our world: the pointy-limbed little people that appear in every other nonprofit logo. Death to the Neutered Sprites!

Debbie Millman|Audio

Dan Pink

Dan Pink is an entrepreneur, speaker and the author of three groundbreaking books on the changing dimensions of the workplace. 

Debbie Millman|Audio

Gong Szeto

Former principal of the interaction design firm io360, Gong Szeto is Director of design and product design at Peak6 Investments.

Sarah Couto|Essays

The Year Playboy Died

Totem Rabbit — (Top, left to right) January 1954, February 1956, October 1957; (Bottom, left to right) March 1958, July 1959 and June 1960Because of its prodigious ability to reproduce, the rabbit is a natural totem for manhood. Its …

Steven Kroeter|Essays

Untitled by Anonymous: An Ode to Branding

Branding received a thorough thrashing in Lucas Conley’s 2008 book, Obsessive Branding Disorder. In the discussions that followed its publication, there were those who agreed with him (see Obsessive Branding Disorder I) and those who …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Seattle PI: RIP

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was founded 146 years ago, when that city was an industrial backwater on Elliot Bay, a timber town with more logs than people.