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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Learning New Tricks

Harvard doesn't have any design courses, but I've found new friends in "material culture." What it's like for a critic to go back to school.

Steven Heller|Insights Per Minute

Steven Heller on Recommendations

Steven Heller is the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and the SVA Masters Workshop in Rome. He is a prolific writer.

Natalie Foster|Insights Per Minute

Natalie Foster on Sharing

Natalie Foster is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Peers.

Cheryl Heller|Essays

Forget Poverty. Let’s Talk Business.

In a recent article on the future of design, I used Paul Polak as a case for why generalists are so important to the world right now.

Mark Lamster|Insights Per Minute

Mark Lamster on Complaining

Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture.

Alice Twemlow|Insights Per Minute

Alice Twemlow on Home

Alice Twemlow is the co-founder and chair of a two-year graduate program in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is also a PhD candidate in the History of Design department at the Royal College of Art, …

Rob Walker|Insights Per Minute

Rob Walker on Seeing

Rob Walker is a technology/culture columnist for Yahoo News. He is the former Consumed columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and has contributed to many publications.

Jessica Helfand|Insights Per Minute

Jessica Helfand on Brevity

Jessica Helfand, a founding editor of Design Observer, is an award-winning graphic designer, writer, and educator.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A World of Paste and Paper

Today's obsession with digital renderings sparked two exhibitions that suggest a handmade, but far from quaint, corrective.

Observed|Essays

What Were We Thinking? The Top 10 Most Dangerous Ads

A list to the top ten most dangerous products advertised to the public as healthy.

Observed|Miscellaneous

One Idea. One Minute. One Voice.

On Monday, Design Observer will debut a new podcast series. We're calling it Insights Per Minute.

John Thackara|Essays

Between Sorrel And Supertanker

John Thackara reviews the recent Doors of Perception xskool.