Arts + Culture

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Body as Factory: Anatomy of an Image

Peeling back the skin of a New Scientist cover illustration by Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson.

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Geek Stories

Adam Harrison Levy attended Kill Screen’s Two5Six conference on video gaming. His intention, as someone who cares about visual culture, but knows nothing about gaming, was to see what he could divine from this emerging …

Adam Plunkett|Essays

On Sylvia Plath’s Drawings

The drawings of Sylvia Plath cause our poetry editor, Adam Plunkett, to revisit her poetry.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Interview with Artist Henrik Drescher

Henrik Drescher is what I call a natural. Making images is simply an extension of his being… like breathing.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Typewriter

Typewriters are making a comeback and, as a wide-ranging new survey book shows, so is typewriter art.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Exploring Art Environments

SPACES is a nonprofit 501c3 public benefit organization incorporated in 1978 for the purposes of identifying, documenting and advocating for the preservation of large-scale art environments.

Adam Harrison Levy|Interviews

The Falling Man: An Interview with Henry Singer

The Falling Man is a 90-minute documentary that tells the story of a controversial image. Who took it? Why was it censored? And who was the man in the photograph?

Observed|Events

More Botany

Avery Thatcher is one of the emerging designers from the oft-lauded creative class in Portland, Oregon.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Brian Singer

On this episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, Debbie talks to Brian Singer, Communication Design team leader at Facebook,.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Our Shared Past

Jefree Shalev and his girlfriend selected 175 film stills from his parents’ past life and dispersed these intimate family images with the Florida art community. The result is an exhibition called ‘Our Shared Past’.

Laura Tarrish|Gallery

Hunter | Gatherer: Botanicals

Each of us has a connection to nature — a primal response to certain landscapes — yet we don’t always use it as raw material for our own work.

John Thackara|Essays

Food As A Commons

People go hungry not because of a shortage of production, but because the food available is too expensive, or they lack the land to grow it on. In California, the prototype of a combined social, political and technical solution has been …