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Steven Heller|Essays

When Good Humor Ice Cream was Hot

The audio rebranding of Good Humor ice cream.

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Debbie Millman|Audio

Best of Design Matters: Kaki King

Rolling Stones has called Kaki King a genre unto herself—she joins to talk about her career path and even plays a song or two.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Tigertones

I was thrilled by the metion of the Tigertones in this week's episode of Mad Men.

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Teddy Blanks|Audio

Teddy Blanks on Figurines

Significant Objects is a much-discussed experiment conducted by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker. This story by Teddy Blanks is recorded as an MP3...

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Teddy Blanks|Essays

Significant Objects: Porcelain Scooter

Significant Objects is a much-discussed experiment conducted by Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker. The fourth of five stories is by Teddy Blanks...

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Mark Lamster|Essays

Theirs Go to Twaalf

Meet Lamster (no relation), Belgium's ascendant metal goliath.

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Mark Lamster|Essays

Michael Jackson, Automotive Designer

I know, Michael Jackson has done some terrible things. Tax evasion. Absconding with the Beatles catalog. Child molestation. We Are the World. But this — is design even the word for it?

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Mark Lamster|Essays

A Horrible Machine

Check out my essay on the classic scout song "Dunderbeck" in the latest issue (no. 6) of the always gnaw-worthy Meatpaper.

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Tom Vanderbilt|Essays

Fanfare for the Common Commuter

I’ve become a regular morning commuter on the city’s splendid Metro — the first in the world to employ only rubber tires on its cars. It didn’t take long for me to notice, as the trains departed, a curious trilogy …

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Debbie Millman|Audio

Michael Hodgson

Michael Hodgson is a DJ and a designer and is co-founder of the design firm Ph.D.

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Debbie Millman|Audio

Gordon Hull

An all-music show with DJ and designer Gordon Hull, co-founder of the firm Surface to Air.

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Dmitri Siegel|Essays

Taking Things Seriously II

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Essays

Ellen McGirt

The Design Observer annual gift guide!

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Cinema

Alexis Haut

‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison

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Democracy

Sheena Medina

What now?

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Aimee Allison

Make a Plan to Vote ft. Genny Castillo, Danielle Atkinson of Mothering Justice