Category: Reviews

Jez Owen|Reviews

Branding Terror

A review of Branding Terror, a new book by Artur Beifuss and Francesco Trivini Bellini.

Philip Nobel|Reviews

Oops: Understanding Failure

A review of To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, by Henry Petroski.

Michael Erard|Reviews

The Elements – Molecules, Atoms and Quarks – of Style

The cipher shared by great poets and the best brand namers is essentially that the littlest things mean the most.

David Stairs|Reviews

Demythologizing Design: Another View of "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES"

David Stairs reviews "Design with other 90%:Cities"

Tom Vanderbilt|Reviews

Interface Time

Review of "Talk to Me" at Museum of Modern Art

Barbara Flanagan|Reviews

Sleeping with the Fishes

Review of "Waltzing with Brando," an account of the actor's effort to inhabit and protect a Tahitian atoll.

Phil Patton|Reviews

Boosting the Urban IQ

Summary of National Building Museum's "Intelligent Cities" symposium

Josh Berta|Reviews

Cars: Pixar Falls for Intelligent Design

Cars: Pixar's greatest misstep in design, and perhaps film in general.

Jez Owen|Reviews

Behind the Zines

A review of the book Behind the Zines: Self-Publishing Culture published by Gestalten.

Robin Cembalest|Reviews

Shrink Rap

Mexican designer/artist Pedro Reyes opens a temporary sanatorium in Brooklyn.

Robin Cembalest|Reviews

Assuming the Position: The Art of Gustav Metzger

A review of the exhibition "Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs," which showed at the New Museum.

Phil Patton|Reviews

Another Wrong Turn for Chris Paine

Review of the documentary film Revenge of the Electric Car.