Technology

Mark Lamster|Essays

Gerd Arntz: Design Icon

Gerd Arntz: A design icon who designed icons.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Is No the Answer?

Bag bans, yes. But why is no plastic the answer?

Rob Walker|Essays

Ghosts in the Machine

Everyday we are busy producing fresh masses of life-affirming digital stuff. What happens to this “stuff” when we die?

Rob Walker|Essays

Global Entertainment

Entertainment via web-based geography.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Shopping D/R at Etsy

Want to recreate D/R this Christmas? Etsy provides the goods.

Carl Schoonover|Books

Portraits of the Mind

The book, Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century (Abrams) documents this overlooked dimension over two millennia of obsession with the brain.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Networks Before the Internet

A new exhibit at the Noguchi Museum shows how small and intertwined were the worlds of mid-century art, design and architecture.

John Thackara|Essays

Jellyfish Farm

Scientists warn that most natural seafood could disappear by 2048.

Rob Walker|Essays

Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing

How four people who do exactly what they want run one of the most popular blogs on the planet.

John Thackara|Essays

In the Air of Madrid

Our world is awash in eco information, but starved of meaning.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Criticism Kerfuffle 2010

There are people trying to write their way to a future of architecture criticism. But it isn't just the writing that's the problem.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Adventures in the Image World

This is a blog about visual culture. It reflects my interests, enthusiasms, concerns and bêtes noires across the spectrum of visual phenomena.