Category: Twenty Years of Design Observer

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Humanism

What does design have to do with sadness, or fury? With kindness—or loss? With empathy, and asking better questions? (With honesty, and seeking better answers?) A fundamental tenet of design practice, humanism reminds us that we make …

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Access

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Fintech

Balancing all that is economic with all that’s ergonomic, designers are creative (by nature) and capitalists (by necessity).

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Education

Educators are among our most cherished cultural ambassadors, sage deputies charged with cultivating curiosity, bestowing counsel, constructing networks, broadening horizons, and expanding capacities for us all.

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Fashion

Our clothes are coats of armor, bespoke uniforms that cocoon us from—and catapult us into—the world at large.

The Editors|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Art

To try to define art in the context of the design professions is to engage in questions of authorship, editorship, adaptation, interpretation, and now more than ever, fair use.

William Drenttel|Twenty Years of Design Observer

Culture Is Not Always Popular

A keynote presentation by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel at the AIGA conference in Vancouver, October 25, 2003.