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Tarpley Hitt|The Academy

Speaking Typography: Letter as Image as Sound

Just as a poet weaves the intent of his poem into its sound and craft, so did Lissitzky, as designer, hope to marry intent with the typography and the design of the book itself. But did he?

Observed|Essays

Selling Shame

Southern California artist Cynthia Petrovic has collected vintage body-shaming advertisements geared toward women.

Observed|Books

These Collages Blur the Lines of Reality

Daniel Gordon is an artist and author living and working in Brooklyn. His work is the subject of three booksand a profile this week on Wired.

John Thackara|Essays

Shoe City vs Sole Rebels

Two radically opposed models of development are being born in Ethiopia at the same time. One is small, local, socially fair, and ecologically respectful. The other takes the globalisation of fashion to a new and more destructive level.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Compulsively Visual World of Pinterest

I have always liked Pinterest’s exclusively visual focus and unlimited boards structure. A week ago I joined.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Native American Design

The National Museum of the American Indian has one of the most extensive collections of Native American art and artifacts in the United States.

John Thackara|Essays

A Whole New Cloth: Politics and the Fashion System

In fashion, despite more than 400 eco labels, an incremental ‘do less harm’ approach has addressed the symptoms, but not the principal cause, of our difficulties: an economy based on perpetual growth in a finite world.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Capturing Imagination

The ten most popular galleries from John Foster in 2013.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Martin Sharp: People, Politics and Pop

Martin Sharp rediscovered: drawings and collages from the book People, Politics and Pop: Australians in the Sixties.

Owen Edwards|Essays

For Better or Worse, This Design Endures

Owen Edwards on the enduring qualities of the AK-47.

Adam Harrison Levy|Essays

Designer’s Cookbook: Jake Tilson

Only in the layered, interconnected culinary world of graphic designer, artist, cookbook author Jake Tilson could huevos rancheros eaten in Los Angeles inspire someone to cook Baid Masus, or Baghdad Special Eggs, a 13th-century Arab dish.