Category: Essays

Dmitri Siegel|Essays

M...O...T...I...O...N

Frames from Kaboom, PES, 2005The work of two young directors, Kris Moyes and PES, reminds us that moving pictures of all kinds rely on manipulating the gaps between...moments...of...perception. Moyes and PES have both created exuberant …

The Editors|Essays

2006 Holiday Reading List

The holidays are always a great time to catch up with reading, and to make gifts to friends and relatives. We've put together a list of some of our favorite books — recent and not so recent — by Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter & George …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

How Hollywood Nailed The Half-Pipe

Pixar and Animal Logic have mastered a particularly persuasive (and as it turns out, rather literal) form of spin that makes Road Runner look like dryer lint.

Michael Bierut|Essays

New House

In 1967, just after my tenth birthday, we moved from a cramped 1940s bungalow in an older Cleveland suburb to up-and-coming Parma, Ohio. I had been walking the earth for a full decade, but that fall I felt I was finally assuming my …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Into the Pink

In Western culture, new baby girls are welcomed into the world with rosy pink layettes. Over time, the pale hues of infancy fade away, giving way to more keenly saturated pastels as a child creeps toward toddlerhood. Later, pink is …

Michael Bierut|Essays

Onserved: CR on Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher at the Design Museum: some thoughts. "Anybody struggling with a career plan couldn't wish for a better template." [MB]

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

Listomania

Spin, spread from 50 Reading Lists, 2006Lists appeal to the fetishistic instincts found in many graphic designers. Hardly surprising since the typographic rendering of a list is one of the first skills the young designer learns: or …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

What Makes A Good Poster?

"Designing Effective Posters," Design by Jeff Radel, PhD., Department of Occupational Therapy Education, University of Kansas Medical Center.At its core, the school science fair of my youth was an excuse to engage in two of my favorite …

William Drenttel|Essays

Polling Place Photo Project

The Polling Place Photo Project seeks to advance innovation in citizen journalism by documenting local voter experiences during the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday, November 7...

William Drenttel|Essays

Polling Place Photo Project

The Polling Place Photo Project seeks to advance innovation in citizen journalism by documenting local voter experiences during the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday, November 7...

William Drenttel|Essays

Polling Place Photo Project

The Polling Place Photo Project seeks to advance innovation in citizen journalism by documenting local voter experiences during the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday, November 7...

John Thackara|Essays

Stern, Monbiot, and the Tasks of Design [November 2006]

Report on global food systems, George Monbiot, climate change economics, the competition to design a stuff-o-meter, the problem with new flatscreen TVs, and more.