Business

Maria Popova|Opinions

Death to Design Awards

Essay attacking design awards for stifling innovation

Michael Bierut|Essays

Michael Bierut on 86 Notebooks

Michael Bierut video of a talk on the 86 notebooks he's kept over the course of his career and  design lessons derived from them.

Robert Grudin|Essays

The Bakers Table

Those tables taught me something. I realized that by designing them I had turned impoverishment into enterprise. I had transcended my own inhibiting academic world and briefly explored the material presences of daily life.

Adrian Shaughnessy|Slideshows

Publishing in the Age of the Internet

Design/Research, published by Unit Editions, are collectable "papers" which, focus on design and visual communication, from the past, by placing it in a future context.

Maria Popova|Essays

The Language of Design Imperialism

Essay on the flawed language used to describe humanitarian design efforts and what it indicates.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Jerry Della Femina, Mad Men, and the Cult of Advertising Personality

A review of Jerry Della Femina’s From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor, published in a new edition on the occasion of the debut of the fourth season of the AMC series Mad Men.

Michael Erard|Projects

The Dream Job Project Part II

How do you conceive of the future work to shoot for, and how you'll do it? The results of these questions, part II.

The Editors|Miscellaneous

Humanitarian Design vs. Design Imperialism: Debate Summary

Bruce Nussbaum started a firestorm with the question "Is humanitarian design the new imperialism?" — and the conversation has spread through the blogosphere. Here, a digest of essays and related posts on this subject.

Constantin Boym|Essays

Teaching in a Time of Uncertainty

Meditation on the doubt creeping into today's design practice.

Jessica Helfand|Primary Sources

The Next Great Graphic Designer

Tonight on Bravo's "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" the winning Penguin book cover design will be unveiled, which begs a few questions. We hope our readers will weigh in with their opinions.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

“We Can’t Really Pay”

All of you print people who scorned bloggers but have moved into blogging and helm publications that “blog,” earth to you: You don’t pay.

Ernest Beck|Report

Catapult Design: How to Run a Design Firm for Social Change

Catapult Design’s nonprofit model offers a new way to think about how designers can engage social innovation projects.