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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Vicarious Thrifting, via Twitter

On the lively, effective and erudite thrifting community on Twitter.

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Ernest Beck|Projects

Project Mwana

A new effort to diagnosis and treat infant HIV/AIDS in remote African regions.

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Rick Poynor|Essays

Paul Stiff, the Reader’s Champion

For the late Paul Stiff, design educator, writer, editor and skeptic, typography must never neglect to serve the reader.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

All That Glitters (and Swoops)

What reviews of aberrant design and Van Cleef diamonds have in common: the death of the design show.

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Josh Wallaert|Essays

Google Maps, Give Us Our River Names

No map in history has made us feel more powerful or more present. But there's a little thing missing: the Mississippi River.

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Julie Lasky|Reviews

Design Indaba 2011

Review of Design Indaba 2011 conference in Cape Town, South Africa

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Reading Out Loud

The disappearing physical on-ramps to reading.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

ISO The Digital Sidewalk Critic

Why is it so hard to say, "I hate my iPad"?

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Neat Freaks

Organizing things neatly = what IBM, Ray Eames, Herbert Matter and Tumblr have in common.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

I Was an Unhappy Hipster

In a renovation by an architect, for a critic, the bookshelves can be a battleground.

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John Thackara|Essays

If It’s Not the Destination and It’s Not the Journey...

A team at Rutgers University, uses ultrasonic sensors, GPS receivers and cellular networks to find empty parking spaces. While technically impressive, this is an absurdly over-complicated answer to the wrong question.

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Jonathan Schultz|Projects

Give a Minute

Report on Local Projects' Give a Minute initiative to improve urban life.

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Ellen McGirt

Candace Parker & Michael C. Bush on Purpose, Leadership and Meeting the Moment

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Ellen McGirt

Compassionate Design, Career Advice and Leaving 18F with Designer Ethan Marcotte

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Ellen McGirt

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