Business

Dmitri Siegel|Essays

Paper, Plastic, or Canvas?

Whale tote bag, Hugo Guiness, 2008Amidst all the despair in the last few years about the slow extinction of various design-friendly formats — the vinyl LP, the newspaper, the book, etc. — one vehicle for graphic design has vaulted to …

Lorraine Wild|Dialogues

A Babylon of Signs

Installation of a digital billboard in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood catalyzed environmental design protests that led to a proposed new sign ordinance in this city.“There is no reason…why the methods of commercial persuasion …

Lorraine Wild|Dialogues

A Babylon of Signs

Installation of a digital billboard in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood catalyzed environmental design protests that led to a proposed new sign ordinance in this city.“There is no reason…why the methods of commercial persuasion …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Neville Brody

An interview with former Face Magazine art director Neville Brody who has been at the forefront of design for more than two decades.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Neville Brody

An interview with former Face Magazine art director Neville Brody who has been at the forefront of design for more than two decades.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Who Needs Two?

In this brutal economy, the Yankees have enlisted Prudential Douglas Elliman to help them move high-end seats at their new stadium.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Jessica Helfand

Jessica Helfand discusses growing up in a family of collectors, her love of visual biography and why history should be more important to designers than it seems to be.

Debbie Millman|Dialogues

Obsessive Branding Disorder II

©2004 Funnypart.comThe current discipline and practice of branding is both obsessively fascinating and shamelessly polarizing. Because our lives are so entwined with brands, it has become difficult to distinguish between our beliefs and …

Michael Bierut|Essays

Designing Through the Recession

Here are three things that happen to designers in a recession, and five things they can do about it.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Ten Things That Need to be Redesigned

Everyone has a list of things that need to be fixed. There are small things, like styrofoam containers that leak last night’s leftovers all over your desk, and then there are bigger things — the American health care system, for …

Rob Walker|Essays

Talk is Cheap

As the financial crisis snowballed this year, retail sales fell sharply. Curiously, many assessments of this development treated it as an exciting new trend.

William Drenttel|Essays

A Design-Oriented National Endowment for the Arts

An Open Letter to the Obama Administration:The National Endowment for the Arts should embrace design and innovation as a means to fulfill the larger agendas and programs of the Obama Administration. The choice of the NEA Chairman is an …