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Ellen McGirt|Books
Parable of the Redesigner
Soft rains come in spite of us.
Ellen McGirt
Parable of the Redesigner
Reflecting on Ray Bradbury, Sara Teasdale, and Octavia Butler, Ellen McGirt explores redesign, resilience, and the quiet power of change.
Ellen McGirt|Essays
The Design Observer annual gift guide!
The winter holidays are already a tricky time for so many people, though this year feels uniquely fraught.
Alexis Haut|Cinema
‘The creativity just blooms’: “Sing Sing” production designer Ruta Kiskyte on making art with formerly incarcerated cast in a decommissioned prison
Sing Sing is a movie that takes place in a prison, but it’s not a prison movie.
Alexis Haut|Analysis
Black balled and white walled: Interiority in Coralie Fargeat's “The Substance”
You know what they say: Women take forever in the bathroom.
Brian Collins|Commentary
Design sinking
Add to the mix a blinkered “human-centered” focus, and brace for a reductionist disaster.
Michael Bierut|Audio
Episode 135: Home for the Holidays
2020:dinner at home, Zoom fatigue, new rules of design, watching television
Jessica Helfand|Audio
Episode 134: Fast and Furious
With Gail Bichler: Remote creative direction for the New York Times Magazine, editorial design fine art, and motherhood; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Fast and the Furious, Yale Mental Health Symposium
Allison Arieff|Audio
Episode 133: Urban Reckoning
With Allison Arieff: The Magic of Empty Spaces, cities during COVID-19, Solving All The Wrong Problems, harvesting honey, The Good Fight
Jessica Helfand|Audio
Episode 132: Back to School?
With Lee Moreau: How to teach during the pandemic, robust design, jigsaw puzzles, The New York Times Spelling Bee
Jessica Helfand|Audio
Episode 131: Word by Word
With Hrishikesh Hirway: games and puzzles, The West Wing Weekly, soap operas, Home Cooking
Jessica Helfand|Audio
Episode 130: Tackling History
With Bobby C. Martin, Jr.: rebranding Champions Design; football in Washington; demands for change at design schools; cooking during quarantine.
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