Category: Miscellaneous

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Dear Bonnie

Announcing Dear Bonnie, a new truth-telling weekly advice column from Bonnie Siegler.

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Frontier Fellowship

The Frontier Fellowship provides creative professionals the opportunity to live and work in Green River, Utah. From this rural place, and in the context of the frontier, Fellows have the opportunity to generate new work that is informed …

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Letterforms + Birthdays 2014 Calendar

Rob Saunders, Curator of the Letterform Archive has designed a 2014 calendar with each month featuring a rare masterwork from the Letterform Archive, exquisitely reproduced in high fidelity and full color.

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Our New Store

Today we're launching our 10th anniversary celebration store, featuring items from Design Observer contributors.

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Happy Halloween!

To celebrate the creepy and the spooky, a short list of films for your Halloween viewing pleasure.

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The Greatest Syllabus of all Time?

Rob Walker thinks "it’s safe to say that this scored video-form syllabus for a music analysis and repertoryclass is the greatest syllabus of all time."

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Insights Per Minute

This week we debuted our new podcast series: Insights Per Minute. We believe that 60 seconds of a singular voice is a powerful format for new, uncluttered insight.

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One Idea. One Minute. One Voice.

On Monday, Design Observer will debut a new podcast series. We're calling it Insights Per Minute.

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Special Summer Series of Design Matters with Debbie Millman

The special series will include interviews with Michael Rock, Jean-Louis Cohen, Brenda Danilowitz and Phillip Tiongson, Harmut Essinger and Leon Krier.

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Design Observer on Apple

A quick Design Observer cameo in the MacBook Pro video.

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The Mighty Shirt Kings

Back in the 1980s, a group of artists calling themselves The Mighty Shirt Kings set up shop at the Jamaica Coliseum, in Queens, offering “custom air-brushed and original artwork,” which could be had on canvas, but also …

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The Man in Black, On Your Envelope

On June 5, 2013, the US Post Office issues a new stamp designed by Greg Breeding featuring Johnny Cash.