Technology

Rob Walker|Essays

Mona Lisa Selfies

Inevitably, the famous Mona Lisa has crossed paths with the selfie — and the results are charming.

Rob Walker|Essays

Seeing The Problem

How a graphic communication campaign could help us address a real electoral map crisis: Gerrymandering 2.0.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Learning New Tricks

Harvard doesn't have any design courses, but I've found new friends in "material culture." What it's like for a critic to go back to school.

Observed|Events

Art Center Launches LEAP Symposium Website

LEAP participants (at Art Center September 19-21) bring a variety of experience across the Private, Social and Public Sectors and Social Enterprise. A webside for the Symposium was launched September 3, 2013.

John Maeda|Insights Per Minute

John Maeda on Loops

We’re in the same loop. Culture lags. Art and design have to pick up the slack.

Rob Walker|Insights Per Minute

Rob Walker on Seeing

Rob Walker is a technology/culture columnist for Yahoo News. He is the former Consumed columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and has contributed to many publications.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A World of Paste and Paper

Today's obsession with digital renderings sparked two exhibitions that suggest a handmade, but far from quaint, corrective.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Soft Machine’s Dysfunctional Mechanism

An alternative cover for the French release of The Soft Machine’s first album alludes to the history of the machine in 20th-century art.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Interaction of Color

Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Potion principal Philip Tiongson discuss the new Interaction of Color app.

Observed|Projects

Eyes on the Sky: Weather Visualized

Jed Carter's new book of watercolors, Eyes on the Sky, is a process-based investigation into generative design and the weather.

Observed|Essays

Iron Man 3 Titles

An interesting look at the design process for the Iron Man 3 title screens.

Observed|Miscellaneous

Design Observer on Apple

A quick Design Observer cameo in the MacBook Pro video.