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Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Brodsky, the Tie Seller in Paris

Every photograph is an enigma

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Rob Walker|Essays

Object Vs. Object

The Re Made Plunger satirizes the Best Made axe — a great example of object-as-critique.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Criticism = Love

Why you have to love design to be a critic.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

“Year of the Woman” Revisited: Alexandra Lange on Criticism, Mentorship, and Memory

A year-end wrap-up of my favorite stories. The common theme? Women and the making of design.

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Rick Poynor|Interviews

Collage Culture: Nostalgia, Critique, and the Art of Remixing Modern Life

An interview with David Banash, author of Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, Freelancer

One of the incidental pleasures of Judith Major’s new book on pioneering architecture critic Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer is the glimpse it gives into the life of a cultural journalist at the turn of the past century.

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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.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Praise the Partner(s)

Salute Denise Scott Brown because she deserves it, but let's not forget the other partners.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Fork and the World: Design 101

If you had to explain design to the uninitiated, where would you start?

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Rick Poynor|Essays

The Practical Virtue of Works That Work

Works That Work magazine reclaims the word “creativity” from the stultifying embrace of branding culture and design thinking.

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Alexandra Lange|Slideshows

Instagramming Around Australia

Lessons from contemporary Australian architecture, plus what I saw on Instagram.

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Rob Walker|Essays

Branding By Numbers

Emblemetric backs its assessment of the American Airlines logo with "the data." Of course, that's open to interpretation.

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Alexis Haut

It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green: ‘Wicked’ spells for struggle and solidarity

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Ellen McGirt

Making Space: Jon M. Chu on Designing Your Own Path

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Ellen McGirt

The New Era of Design Leadership with Tony Bynum

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Ellen McGirt

A Mastercard for Pigs? How Digital Infrastructure is Transforming Farming and Fighting Poverty