Education

Rob Walker|Essays

Assignments for Yourself

A designer's book of self-assignments prompts us to learn by going "beyond what is asked" in our workaday professional lives.

Mark Yoes|Essays

Elinor Evans : Some Truths from the Master

The artist, educator, and architecture guru Elinor Evans turns 100.

Kenneth FitzGerald|Essays

Yourselves: Declaring Ourselves

Exploring the interests of the AIGA Design Educators Community

Alex Knowlton|Essays

Miami Nice

Alex Knowlton reviews this year's ADC Festival of Art + Craft in Advertising and Design in Miami Beach.

David Morris|Books

The Public Library

The public library is a singularly American invention whose prime directive has been to protect access to information.

Observed|Miscellaneous

2014 Porto Summer Editorial Design Course

Herewith, why you should seriously consider the  2014 Porto Summer Editorial Design Course.

John Thackara|Essays

Summer Xskool in Sweden

This year’s Doors of Perception Summer Xskool explores what it can mean in practice to move from a ‘do less harm’ approach to sustainability to a practice of leave things better.

Observed|Miscellaneous

Porto Design Summer School

Porto is an undiscovered gem for designers everywhere: an astonishingly affordable, visually extraordinary European oasis right on the coast of Portugal, where typography reigns supreme. It's also a summer destination for two weeks of …

Chris Pullman|Essays

Remembering Alvin Eisenman

Alvin Eisenman received the AIGA Medal in October, 1991. Chris Pullman, a student in Eisenman's class of 1966 — and a member of the faculty ever since — gave these remarks at the event.

Observed|Projects

Wheat Paste Graffiti in Detroit

Graphic Design students of Dan Sinclair at Eastern Michigan University wheat pasted their posters in a sanctioned area of Detroit

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Learning New Tricks

Harvard doesn't have any design courses, but I've found new friends in "material culture." What it's like for a critic to go back to school.

Observed|Miscellaneous

The Greatest Syllabus of all Time?

Rob Walker thinks "it’s safe to say that this scored video-form syllabus for a music analysis and repertoryclass is the greatest syllabus of all time."