Category: Interviews

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Lawrence Azerrad

It‘s June, and you know what that means—the unofficial kick-off of summer concert season. This month, we examine design and music, and why fans everywhere benefit when these creative industries work in concert.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Jamer Hunt

“And it’s likely the case that most design criticism today focuses on ideology more than aesthetics, as we’re going through a period of long-overdue self-scrutiny.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Molly Heintz

Labeling design, or anything, “good” is a slippery slope—good for whom?

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Artifact: 2000 Palm Beach County Ballot

This article is the first in a new and ongoing Design Observer series, Artifact, which takes one piece out of AIGA’s Design Archives and asks a design expert in the topic being observed to reflect on its current impact in the …

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Andrew Blauvelt

Criticism allows for self-reflection, and that is necessary when we use words like discipline and field to talk about design.

Julie Anixter|Interviews

Should Designers Be Swiss Army Knives?

An Interview with Victorinox’s Pierre Salamon on culture, creativity and the famous multipurpose tool.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Alice Twemlow

“Of course design criticism is still relevant—it just inhabits formats that we might be less familiar with.”

Laetitia Wolff|Interviews

Design for Democracy: Building Community Power

Design articulates choice at a time when there are seemingly no choices or only binary choices.

Nakita M. Pope|Interviews

“Black Creatives Aren’t Just Around in February”: An interview with Maurice Cherry

2018 Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary recipient Maurice Cherry talks design education, diversity in design, his advocacy work, and personal inspirations.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Karin Fong

“A bit of uncertainty is good for the design process. I would hate to be trapped in the sureness of my own thoughts.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Double or Nothing: Can designers erase the gender pay gap?

On Equal Pay Day, Heather Stern, Emily Oberman, and Laura Kunkel, leaders of the new AIGA Women Lead campaign Double or Nothing, talk about what they’re doing to make the gender pay gap a thing of the past.

Julie Anixter|Interviews

Just Keep Walking: An Interview with Paula Scher

Called “the most influential woman graphic designer on the planet” by fellow designer extraordinaire Ellen Lupton, Pentagram partner Paula Scher has left an undeniable imprint on the American design psyche.