Social Good

Steven Heller|Essays

Victims of the Image: Yellow Peril

Visual hazing in popular art and design of Asians was long maintained for different purposes.

Komal Sharma|Essays

What's Old is New Again

How computational design and long-standing traditions can work hand in hand.

Steven Heller|Essays

State of the Union Rats

“Scabby,” as it is appropriately nick-named, is the labor movement’s most effective protest icon and guaranteed to grab the attention of even the most blasé passersby.

Ashleigh Axios|Essays

A Standards Manual Reprinted With a New Purpose

Can we go back to the 1977 awareness and ensure the protection of the EPA’s legacy and the environment it protects?

Cheryl Heller|Essays

Conflict as a Tool For Social Change

To be passionate about change requires unconquerable optimism, fed by a vision of the better thing ahead.

Eric Heiman|Essays

Necessary Frictions

Want to get an immediate, on-the-ground sense of a new city in all its multicultural glory? Use its public transit.

Mariana Amatullo|Essays

People to People ­­: Fresh Eyes on a Changing Cuba

The power of visual metaphor and design’s aesthetic dimension as a way forward for cultural rapprochement and social transformation.

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Eighteen

Michael Bierut|Audio

S1E8: Leslie Koch

Leslie Koch was the president and CEO of the Trust for Governors Island.

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Sixteen

The Louvre, visting cats, taxidermy’s magical world, street typefaces, cafe chairs.

Cheryl Heller|Essays

A Definition Five Years in the Making

What we mean when we say “design for social innovation”

Jessica Helfand|Paris 140

Paris One Forty: Week Fifteen

There are moments and places in Paris where the visual evocation of time’s inevitable passage is simply meaningless.