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Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Oildale by Rudy VanderLans

The dismal beauty of an oil field

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Timothy Young|Essays

Dispatch from La Lagunilla

Where old design treasures are the new new

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Michael Bierut|Audio

S1E1: John Bielenberg

John Bielenberg is a designer, entrepreneur and imaginative advocate for a better world.

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ThoughtMatter|Essays

Work Worth Doing: Branding the 100 Gates Project

Ambition, art, activism, and empowerment.

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Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Chelsea Mauldin

“Most broken government systems are not designed—they accrete, bits and pieces stuck on to address problems.”

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Scott Boylston|Essays

Design, Belonging, and Human Capabilities

The space between what we hope to achieve in our lives and the realization of those desires is riddled with contradiction and confrontation.

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Sloan Leo|Audio

The Futures Archive S2E10: The Automatic Door

The automatic door is a part of most peoples everyday lives, and certainly considered a convenience. But when you walk up to one does it feel magical? Futuristic? Frustrating? On this episode, Lee Moreau and Sloan Leo discuss the automatic …

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Don Norman|Books

Design for a Better World

An excerpt from Don Norman’s new book, Design for a Better World.

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Jason Orton|Gallery

All That Remains

Jason Orton's photograph of a tree in Dartford, Kent, one of few left over from a lush arboretum.

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Michael Erard|Essays

Notes on Being Born on Soil

At times you hear stories about patriots in exile who want their children to be born in the motherland and supplement by putting dirt from said place under a woman who is giving birth.

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Jane Margolies|Projects

St. Augustine School Chicken Project

Report on the sustainability program at St. Augustine parochial school in the South Bronx.

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Eve M. Kahn|Reviews

Green Sleeves

Review of “Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion” at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, November 20, 2009 - February 20, 2010.

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Ellen McGirt

Love Letter to a Garden and 20 years of Design Matters with Debbie Millman

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Susan Morris

‘The conscience of this country’: How filmmakers are documenting resistance in the age of censorship

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Ellen McGirt

Redesigning the Spice Trade: Talking Turmeric and Tariffs with Diaspora Co.’s Sana Javeri Kadri

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Alexis Haut

It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green: ‘Wicked’ spells for struggle and solidarity