Category: Interviews

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Deva Pardue

“I don’t believe that being an artist or a designer by definition makes you an activist. I think the responsibility arises when you have something relevant to say.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Lindsay Peoples

Celebrating Women’s History month and how to better design for inclusivity with The Cut’s fashion market editor, Lindsay Peoples.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Julian Alexander

What made Julian Alexander become a designer, and what was it like working with 50 Cent during the start of his career?

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Jason Murphy

“Inclusivity. That is the cliché. Where are they doing that?”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Ced Funches

“Admitting you may not be the best person to bring a vision to life is the hard part.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Briana Como

“We make an effort to be aware of and remove bias by focusing on behaviors instead of demographics when creating distinct personas.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Sarah Doody

“With anything we create, the first step in the design process must be to understand. This happens through research.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Richard Ting

Richard Ting, Global Chief Experience Officer at R/GA, continues our Chain Letters interview series.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Jessica Gaddis

This interview is part of a new Design Observer series, Chain Letters, in which we ask leading design minds a few burning questions—and so do their peers, for a year-long conversation about the state of the industry.

Steven Heller|Interviews

Making Inaccessibility Accessible

If you subscribe to the belief that good design makes life better, then there can be no better use of design than as an aid—if not a curative—for the disabled.

Maya P. Lim|Interviews

The Art and Design of Tombstones

Tombstone creation, with its centuries of history, is perhaps one of the most enduring forms of graphic design.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Assessing the Past; Looking Toward the Future

How the new AIGA Google Art Project “Across Borders: A Look at the Work of Latinx Designers” revealed insights about archived Latinx work of the past—and clues to its ascendance in the future of design.