Category: Essays

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Jessica Helfand|Essays

"Oui, Oui, Oui" All The Way Home

Drawings by Fiona Drenttel. Our children delight in the retelling of the story of my apprehension when, as a child, I embarked on my first airplane trip. Marking the ceremonious start of our family's four-year stay in Paris, it heralded a …

The Editors|Essays

Design Observer @ 10,000,000 Party

Design Observer T-Shirt, design by Tracy Jenkins & Chester, 2006Design Observer began in October 2003, and thirty-two months and over four hundred posts later, we are fortunate to have an ever-growing audience of readers and participants. …

Justin Good|Essays

What is Beauty? Or, On the Aesthetics of Wind Farms

Green Energy, Michael Tyas, 2006What is beauty and how does it relate to ecology? A look at contrasting aesthetic intuitions about wind farms reveals a paradigm shift in how we understand beauty. Our sense of the nature of beauty cannot be …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Annals of Academia: The New Exoticism

It's May — the month of hay fever, television sweeps and final reviews. Of the first two, I can say only this: as a veteran allergy sufferer, I watched the swan-song episode of The West Wing in an antihistamine-induced haze, and it …

Michael Bierut|Essays

Eight-and-a-Half by Eleven

An installation of over 10,000 tiled pieces 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper redeems what has often been dismissed as a banal graphic format.

Julie Lasky|Essays

The Photography of Mark Robbins

Mark Robbins exhibition at Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, 2003Mark Robbins' Households is a collection of portraits in which the sitters are sometimes sitting rooms (or kitchens or bedrooms), and the people are polished, draped, and …

Alissa Walker|Essays

Why Scientology is Good for Hollywood

If you live where I do, in the actual city of Hollywood, just a few blocks away from where the Oscars are held, you see the Church of Scientology as somewhat of a savior. Within a two-mile corridor along Hollywood Boulevard, the Church …

Michael Bierut|Essays

I Am a Plagiarist

Plagiarism is a hot topic in the world of publishing, What does it mean in the world of design? Michael Bierut pleads guilty.

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

We're All Stellar Designers, Now

In her book The Substance of Style, author Virginia Postrel notes that "Worldwide, at least fifty graphic design magazines publish regularly." Postrel wrote this in 2003; it seems likely that the number will have risen since then. There's …

Dmitri Siegel|Essays

It Takes a Nation of Lawyers to Hold Us Back

It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Photography and design by Glen E. Friedman, Public Enemy logo by Chuck D, 1988.When the Smithsonian Institution recently announced a deal with Showtime to create a joint venture called …

John Thackara|Essays

Announcing Doors 9 and 10 [May 2006]

Report on Doors of Perception "Juice," Doors of Perception 10, The Young Foundation manifesto, monitoring a region's vital signs in real time, the Aspen Design Summit, and more.