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Rick Poynor|Essays

The Closed Shop of Design Academia

Shouldn’t it be part of a design academic’s brief to communicate more widely with the design profession and public?

John Thackara|Essays

Oil-Powered Thinking

Why is it that countervailing facts don’t change things in our evidence-based world? And what might we do about it?

Laura Weiss|Essays

Woody Allen, Creative Management Genius

Woody Allen's movie-making process offers three insights that have application to anyone who leads a creative enterprise or manages a creative process.

William Drenttel|Essays

Designing for Social Change

Designing for Social Change is a toolkit of strategies, case studies, and stories, offering new opportunities for approaching social design in our communities.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Typographic Stories of the City Streets

Characters, a new book by Stephen Banham, investigates the stories behind Melbourne’s street signs.

Nancy Levinson|Essays

Design Indaba 2012

Design Indaba 2012 gathered creative people from graphic and product design, architecture and landscape, film and video, not to mention Danish gastronomy and Bollywood movies.

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

When Less Really Does Mean Less

Since the banking crises of 2008, designers fromWestern nations are learning painfully to adapt to the new reality: less is the new normal.

Debbie Millman|Audio

James Biber

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, James Biber discusses growing up in a house with a womb chair, visual illiteracy and designing the Museum of Sex.

John Thackara|Essays

Design In The Light of Dark Energy

A shortened version of a talk on why the world has to reduce energy consumption, the five per cent energy solution and some of the people around the world who are leading the way.

John Thackara|Essays

A Reading List for Mr. Mario Monti

A (mostly) online list of readings for the new Italian Prime Minister, Mr. Mario Monti, and anyone else who is ready for a cold hard look at our energy resources and options.

Owen Edwards|Essays

Designers Leap, Users Lag

Trying to meet the challenges designers and engineers set for us is pretty much hopeless, though we can have a lot of fun trying.

John Thackara|Essays

From Milk to Superfoods: Supping with the Devil?

The social and ecological crimes Big Food is committing, in other parts of the world, so that you and I can eat what we damn well feel like.