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TopicsPodcastsJobsNewslettersBooksConferencesAdvertiseMastheadTopics |Podcasts |Jobs |Newsletters |Books |ConferencesAdvertise| Masthead.hptopsq {}.sqhover { background: rgba(0,0,0,.7); color: white;}.sqhover:hover { background: rgba(0,0,0,1); color: #e6490b;}Debbie Millman | Design Matters with Debbie MillmanJack White + Ben JenkinsSara Hendren + Lee Moreau | The Futures ArchiveThe Futures Archive S2E4: The DefibrillatorLorraine Wild | EssayOn the Basis of “Art”David Byrne | BookA Story Made of PicturesAdrian Shaughnessy | EssaysCharles Dickens and The BBCAdam Harrison Levy | EssaysThe History of Being FoundJason Grant | EssaysAgainst Branding: Part 2 — Design and HappinessJessica Helfand | AudioS9E01: Ellen MirojnickAdrian Shaughnessy | EssaysAre JPEGs the New Album Covers?Steven Heller | EssaysIncompetence Is a SkillSteven Heller | EssaysThe Thrill is Gone: A Collector’s LamentChappell Ellison | EssaysYou’ll Never Guess the Amazing Ways Online Design Writing and Criticism Has ChangedHarriet Gridley | Terms of ServiceTerms of Service: March EditionAlexandra Lange | EssaysAgainst Kickstarter UrbanismAlexandra Lange | EssaysLessons from the High LineAdrian Shaughnessy | Terms of ServicePan Afrikan Design Institute The Editors | BooksSelf-RelianceScott Berkun | BooksThe Powerful Decide | BooksCovering Black AmericaAdrian Shaughnessy | EssaysThe Designer's VirusDebbie Millman | AudioPing ZhuEugenia Bell | EssaysEliot NoyesDiana Seave Greenwald | BooksWhy Have There Been No Great Women Artists?Susan Yelavich | BooksBeings: Unruly Things, Golems, Cyborgs | BooksThe New Art of Making BooksAdam Harrison Levy | EssaysJump Cut: Thoughts on Editing The Editors | Terms of ServiceTerms of Service: June 2021Susan Morris | EssaysDesign + Architecture at SXSW Observed | April 29Creatives for Ukraine, an open platform with over one thousand digital artworks submitted showing solidarity with Ukraine. [BV]Trained as an Industrial designer at Notre Dame, Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow takes on the GOP. [JH]Yup. [JH]Designers! They’re just like us! “Grey’s friend Jamie Lee Curtis helped design the cover of Out of the Corner, using what she described in a phone interview as “D.I.Y. photoshop phone app skills.” [JH]Observed | April 26Award-winning American artist and illustrator, Marshall Arisman, has died at 83. Steve Heller’s tribute is here. [JH]Observed | April 08Kevin Lippert, the founder of Princeton Architectural Press, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 63. [JH]Forbes offers “graphic design on a budget” advise—in the name of leadership. [JH]The saga to redesign Rhode Island’s license plate continues, with design educators weighing in. [JH]An early Easter gift for a grateful librarian: Charles Darwin’s notebooks, long missing, mysteriously returned! (Via Jen Renninger) [JH]Educator, artist, activist and civil rights era photographer Doris Derby has died. She was 82. [JH]Observed | March 18MIT announces The Morningside Academy for Design, a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation across the design professions, and which will be housed at the School of Architecture and Planning. [JH]Karen Hoffman, a seasoned educator and industrial designer, is named the next President of ArtCenter, in California. She will be the first female president in the college’s ninety-year history. [JH]Observed | March 11The 2020 National Security Law, slogans, and the art of the pictogram: a thread on Twitter. (via Blake Eskin.) [JH]Owning the apple—one logo at a time. [JH]Observed | March 04Emeline King, Ford’s first black female transportation designer, has a few things to say about trailblazing. [JH]Observed | February 25The value of well-designed work. [JH]In Berlin: Konstantin Grcic on design, function, and the new normal. [JH]How to design a bike lane. [JH]Observed | February 11A love letter to Garamond. [JH]Maria Nicanor is appointed director of the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York.[JH]Observed | January 28An extraordinary list of speakers just announced for the State of Black Design conference, at Texas State University. (h/t Rebecca Breuer) [JH]When design fails—according to Reddit users. [JH]When Build Back Better becomes Design Back Better: a speculative scenario for employee retention, one “innovation space” at a time. [JH]Jobs | May 05 Contact | Policy | Terms of Use© 2003-2022 Observer Omnimedia LLC. “Design Observer” is a registered trademark of Observer Omnimedia LLC.