Arts + Culture

Debbie Millman|Audio

Futura

Across 50 years in the art scene, Futura has undergone a brilliant evolution from graffiti prodigy to design master.

Adrian Shaughnessy|Terms of Service

Pan Afrikan Design Institute

In this month’s Terms of Service, Adrian Shaughnessy explores contemporary African graphic design.

Jason Hill|Books

Artist as Reporter

In the 1940s the New York daily newspaper PM’s experimented with the then already "lost art" of sketch reporting.

Susan Morris|Essays

Design+ at Sundance, Slamdance, and the NYFF

One of the conveniences of the pandemic has been the ability to watch film festivals from the comfort of home — no waiting in queues, no schlepping in the snow, no talking in the audience.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters From the Archive: Marilyn Minter

Sex, power, feminism—Marilyn Minter reflects on her rise, being banished from the art world, and her return and personal revolution.

Susan Morris|Essays

Utopias at the Architecture & Design Film Festival

The surprising trend in this year’s Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) was Utopias.

Richard Baird|Books

Akogare 憧れ

Akogare, like many Japanese words, is loaded with nuance, and is difficult to translate directly to English.

George Aye|Essays

How We Shook Up the World’s Oldest Student Design Competition

A story in Design Observer started a life-changing collaboration between the RSA in London and a small design studio in Chicago, Illinois.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S8E4: Ari Melenciano

Ari Melenciano is an artist, creative technologist, educator, and the founder of Afrotectopia, a social institution fostering interdisciplinary innovation.

Jessica Helfand|Audio

S8E3: Maxwell Anderson

Maxwell Anderson is the president of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership.

Steven Heller|Essays

Reverse Migration: A Growing Pain

I am a rock ribbed, original New Yawka.

Steven Heller|Essays

Lou Rogers: Suffragist Cartoonist

Rogers was an outspoken reformer, using her voice and body as weapons in the battles for the vote and other fundamental human rights that were denied women.