Arts + Culture

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.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Episode 69: Fixes and Facelifts

Fixing American democracy, Snøhetta’s plan for Philip Johnson’s AT&T Building, Internetting With Amanda Hess, Synoptical History of the Civil War

Michael Bierut|Essays

Everything I Know About Design I Learned from The Sopranos

After eight years, 86 episodes, and untold quantities of gobbagool, The Sopranos finished its run on HBO. And this is what we’ve learned, from a design point of view.

Michael Bierut|Essays

I Love the 80s

Miami Vice: the quintessential postmodern design artifact, in all its glory and all its disgrace.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Learning to Draw with Jon Gnagy

“Mike looks like he might be a real artist!”

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.

Maya P. Lim|Books

Joan Miró: I Work Like a Gardener

“To work like a gardener was to create life itself—the autonomous life of a visual universe that, in [Miró’s] words, was a world set in motion.”

Julie Anixter|Essays

Speaking of Home: Saint Paul Skyways become Immigrant Portrait Gallery

“The goals of empowering new Americans, supporting diversity, and teaching tolerance are all critical to the long-term health of our city.”

Hannah Carlson|Essays

Fashion and Function at MoMA: Bernard Rudofsky’s “24 Pockets”

Not since the architect and social critic Bernard Rudofsky curated “Are Clothes Modern?” in 1944 has the MoMA addressed the contribution of apparel to the design arts.

Gregorio Amaro|Projects

“Digital Amoxtli ”: Interaction Design Can Be More than Just Fun and Games

Through designer Gregorio Amaro’s new project, which addresses death from a MesoAmerican perspective, we see how interaction design has the potential to create positive outcomes by addressing difficult subjects in new ways.

Ken Gordon|Essays

Narration vs. Curation: Deyan Sudjic, the Design Museum, and B Is for Bauhaus

To read a book is to stage an exhibition in one’s own imagination.

Tod Lippy|Exhibitions

Drawing Set

The art that happens when different creative disciplines and the general public collide.