History

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hands-On: The Gropius Touch

I couldn’t believe no one else had noticed that Ati Gropius Johansen was coming to the MoMA, and it seemed like a piece of history.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Trip Down Memory Lane

In my ongoing project to give my son as much of a 1970s childhood as possible, we recently ran across all of the 1968 animated film, Yellow Submarine.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Designing the Unthinkable

For more than fifty years, there have been arguments against nuclear proliferation. The Doomsday Clock translates all the arguments to a simple visual analogy.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On DO: Skating on the Edge of Taste

The American Restaurant in Kansas City, designed by Warren Platner, is subject of a long essay on that architect and interior designer’s career.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Ralph Rapson: Forgotten Hero of Design Merch

If you're familiar with Cambridge, or just Harvard Square, you probably know Ben Thompson's wonderful Design Research building, now celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

George Nelson in Two Dimensions

Ignore the Coconuts and Marshmallows, admire George Nelson's modular graphics.

Steven Heller|Essays

Image Captures: Change the Canon

“The challenge was to balance the known while capturing the unknown.” Steven Heller on finding new artifacts on which design can evolve.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Steven Heller

“Design is a profession that has grown out of its stereotypes.”

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Woman Mailing a Letter by Clifton R. Adams

The spell of vintage color

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Art Matters to Architecture

In Indianapolis, a restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see its Brutalist home as its architect intended: with color!

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Conceptual Posters of Boris Bucan

Boris Bućan’s little known early posters, produced in Zagreb, were reductive, sharply defined, cerebral and enigmatic.

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Dylan Stone: 100 Years

Adam Harrison Levy reviews Dylan Stone's exhibition of 100 years of personal pocket diaries at Ruth Phaneuf Fine Art.