Arts + Culture

Debbie Millman|Audio

Laurie Anderson

Debbie Millman brings artist Laurie Anderson live on stage to discuss her career, art, life, and politics.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

The Remarkable Mr. Deeds

Work from an anonymous artist who self-identified only as ‘a patient at the State Lunatic Asylum in Nevada, Missouri around 1905.’

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

The Politics of Desire and Looting

The part designers have played in the London riots.

Kathleen Meaney|Essays

Wing It: Testing Out Exhibit Design Using Virtual Reality

The field of environmental (or experiential) graphic design is young and on fire.

Cheryl Heller|Essays

Social Design Helped Women Win Equality in Iceland. And So?

Forty-three years ago, Icelandic women used social design principles to implement "The Long Friday" strike for gender equity. As Cheryl Heller explains, the past has never felt more present.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Steven Pinker

Debbie talks to experimental psychologist and author Steven Pinker about measuring human happiness.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S4E1: Stella Bugbee

Stella Bugbee is the editor in chief and president of New York Magazine’s The Cut.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Design Comb Over

Hair is more than a fibrous protein. Hair is who we are, or at least what we project we are. Hair defines personal brand identity.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Critical Olympics

What the best sports commentary does is just like criticism: it makes you care about the previously abstract.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 74: Eyes and Hands

Cræft by Alexander Langlands, doctors and design, Sean Tejaratchi’s LiarTown, a pair of iRi NYC sneakers

Michael Bierut|Essays

Speech, Speech

The State of the Union Address is tonight. Messages, big ideas, careful details, second-guessing, refinements and revisions, anonymity: graphic design has a lot in common with political speechwriting. What kind of client do you suppose the …

Michael Bierut|Essays

Vladimir Nabokov: Father of Hypertext?

The innovative narrative technique developed by Vladimir Nabokov for his 1962 novel Pale Fire—essentially a single epic poem with footnotes and commentary—anticipated hypertext, the internet, and the interconnected world of …