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Steven Heller|Essays
When Good Humor Ice Cream was Hot
The audio rebranding of Good Humor ice cream.
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.
Alexandra Lange|Essays
The Tigertones
I was thrilled by the metion of the Tigertones in this week's episode of Mad Men.
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...
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...
Mark Lamster|Essays
Theirs Go to Twaalf
Meet Lamster (no relation), Belgium's ascendant metal goliath.
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?
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.
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 …
Debbie Millman|Audio
Michael Hodgson
Michael Hodgson is a DJ and a designer and is co-founder of the design firm Ph.D.
Debbie Millman|Audio
Gordon Hull
An all-music show with DJ and designer Gordon Hull, co-founder of the firm Surface to Air.
Dmitri Siegel|Essays
Taking Things Seriously II
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