Category: Essays

Michael Bierut|Essays

Seymour, An Introduction

In a world of design consultants, information architects, and experience planners, Seymour Chwast is something refreshingly old-fashioned: a commercial artist.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Memory

Pictures do not only speak louder than words but also are more likely to be remembered.

Matthew Jacobson|Essays

Instarebrand

All change?

Bill Shaffer|Essays

Willem Sandberg

Art and Resistance

DJ Stout|Essays

Jack Unruh

The House on Fairmont

Steven Heller|Essays

The D Word: Sin

Tracts to Attract Sinners

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Hiroshima Lost and Found

The lack of visual evidence of the atom bomb’s effect has helped us to forget its devastating impact. To see is to remember.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Consequence

What happens when we let things go?

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Patience

Nobler than beauty

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Identity

To be human is to struggle with the unknowable. To design is to make things knowable.

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

Collaborate or Die

Graphic design as ensemble performance

Jessica Helfand|Essays

On Desire

Design matters because of the why, not the what: the sentiment, not the acquisition.