Category: Essays

Ellen McGirt|Essays

Navigating the fraught new reality of DEI

Despite the backlash, DEI work remains popular and necessary.

Ellen McGirt|Essays

It’s Time to Find Your People

Announcing Equity Observer, Design Observer’s new editorial vertical and newsletter focused on the people and ideas redesigning the world for good.

Susan Morris|Essays

New Directors/New Films 2023

The 2023 52nd edition of New Directors/New Films, the annual celebration jointly hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art that “has celebrated filmmakers who speak to the present and anticipate the future of …

Caroline Fuchs|Essays

On Design, Courage, and the Power of Typography

Opening remarks given by Dr. Caroline Fuchs, Curator at Kuratorin bei Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum at the opening of Paula Scher’s new retrospective, "Paula Scher: Type is Image."

Susan Morris|Essays

Doc Fortnight 2023

Doc Fortnight is MoMA’s annual international festival of nonfiction film that “celebrates important new discoveries in documentary cinema….both emerging and established artists [that] highlights the ever-growing …

Laura Scherling|Essays

Imagery Made by a Designer or Artist, with Artificial Intelligence

As an avalanche of AI-assisted imagery has taken over social media feeds and has served as a starting point for further research, this has been followed variously by awe and dismay.

Susan Morris|Essays

Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Music

A roundup of films from the Sundance and Slamdance 2023 festivals that feature music.

Susan Morris|Essays

Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Literary Arts

The 2023 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals roundup of films that feature literary arts.

Susan Morris|Essays

Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Performing Arts

This year the 2023 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals were rich with performing arts films.

Susan Morris|Essays

Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Art + Life

This year, at the 2023 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals, one can sense anxiety as well as nostalgia, a fractured world searching for sense and meaning. Here is a roundup of films that feature arts intersection with life.

Susan Morris|Essays

Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Media Arts

This year at the 2023 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals one can sense anxiety as well as nostalgia, a fractured world searching for sense and meaning. Here is a roundup of films that feature the media arts.

Susan Morris|Essays

Sundance/Slamdance 2023: Visual Arts

A roundup of films from the 2023 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals that feature design — built, graphic, and digital; and the arts — visual, performing, and literary.