Technology

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.

Observed|Shameless Promotions

Women, Equity, Architecture

Parlour, a new Australian site with the tagline"Women, Equity, Architecture", has a dual project: creating a forum for discussion of and opportunities for women in architecture, and reporting on research, scholarship and the history of …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Against Kickstarter Urbanism

You can Kickstart an edible spoon, but not a city.

Rob Walker|Essays

Where We Work

The computer-screen desktop, considered as a category of work space.

Michael Erard|Reviews

The Elements – Molecules, Atoms and Quarks – of Style

The cipher shared by great poets and the best brand namers is essentially that the littlest things mean the most.