Technology

Rob Walker|Essays

Tracking War Drones

Online projects that seek to make the drone war comprehensible.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

3rd Annual Holiday Card Review

Holiday card designs for 2012 reveal the social media preoccupations of their buyers, whether it is Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram or old-fashioned (perhaps Downton Abbey-inspired?) stationery.

Rob Walker|Essays

System As Photographer

System as photographer, and photographer as system.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Shopping With Sandro, and Other Tumblr Delights

Digitizing the Miller House Collection, and other museum and corporate visual archives on Tumblr.

Rob Walker|Essays

Crowdcrit vs. Apple Maps

An instant Tumblr responds to Apple's maps app, and demonstrates the art of the creative takedown.

Rob Walker|Essays

Card Tricks

The digital doesn't annihilate the analog, and business card creativity proves it.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Bill Moggridge 1943-2012

Jessica Helfand remebers Bill Moggridge.

Rob Walker|Essays

Observational Instruments, Observed

Peeping at the Venue project's delightful gear, and Google's Seussian Trekker

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Charismatic Megafauna of Design

Identifying the "charismatic megafauna" of design and the critical uses of their popularity.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Introducing Strelka Press

On Strelka Press, a new "digital first" publisher of longform architecture and design criticism.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: A History of the Machine

Erik Nitsche’s New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention is a landmark of modern, low-cost, mass-market, educational book design.

Rob Walker|Essays

The Infrastructure of the Cloud

On the material structures we depend on to deliver us the immaterial digital world.