Arts + Culture

Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters from the Archive: Julia Turshen

Debbie talks to Julia about cooking and writing, and how to peel a hard-boiled egg.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Mind-Body Problems

Nutrition Facts, Mark Bittman’s food rating system, colon cancer screening, Time Well Spent, Peter Arno, Flat File

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Drape (Cavalcade III) by Eva Stenram

Abducted in plain sight

Michael Bierut|Audio

The Good, the Flat, and the Ugly

Instagram, rainbows, digital brutalism, Design: The Invention of Desire, the Freewrite.

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Mrs. E.N. Todter by Dion & Puett Studio

Art and the Ladies’ Field Club

Debbie Millman|Audio

Alison Bechdel

Debbie talks to Alicon Bechdel about how identifying herself as a lesbian when she was young lead her into a career as a cartoonist.

Rob Walker|Essays

Object Journalism at Mmuseumm

The new season of Mmuseumm speaks to our present, by way of unlikely objects.

Michael Bierut|Audio

Prisons and Paradise

Solitary confinement, virtual reality, design thinking for prisoners, Drew Hodges’s Broadway, The Paradise, Prince’s unpronounceable glyph

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Rayograph with Gun by Man Ray

The poetry of the cameraless photo

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

Innovation in banality

Searching the stacks of "library music"

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Made for Walking

The intricate art of the cowboy boot

Victoria Solan|Essays

Love, Optimized

Can one’s inner life be made easier by technology?