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Debbie Millman|Audio

Gong Szeto

Former principal of the interaction design firm io360, Gong Szeto is Director of design and product design at Peak6 Investments.

Sarah Couto|Essays

The Year Playboy Died

Totem Rabbit — (Top, left to right) January 1954, February 1956, October 1957; (Bottom, left to right) March 1958, July 1959 and June 1960Because of its prodigious ability to reproduce, the rabbit is a natural totem for manhood. Its …

Steven Kroeter|Essays

Untitled by Anonymous: An Ode to Branding

Branding received a thorough thrashing in Lucas Conley’s 2008 book, Obsessive Branding Disorder. In the discussions that followed its publication, there were those who agreed with him (see Obsessive Branding Disorder I) and those who …

Mark Lamster|Essays

Seattle PI: RIP

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was founded 146 years ago, when that city was an industrial backwater on Elliot Bay, a timber town with more logs than people.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Save the Library Redux

Could it be that the sour economy is the best friend of the good old library?

Debbie Millman|Audio

Patrick Coyne

An interview with Patrick Coyne, editor of Communication Arts, with special guests Milton Glaser and Cheryl Heller.

John Thackara|Essays

The Innovator Next Door

Whether it's narrowly defining innovation as technology, or imposing solutions on communities, John Thackara discusses the mistakes made by large companies.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Natalia Ilyin

Natalia Ilyin is a design critic and educator and ithe author of two books — Blonde Like Me, and Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Modernist Design in Our Time.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Annals of Branding, Redux

The design elves over at Pepsico have been very busy of late, as noted here last week regarding the (awful) new logo for the corporate flagship and the (much hated) new packaging for Tropicana.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Joe Duffy + Nate Voss

The Reflex Blue's Nate Voss interviews Joe Duffy about his work for some of the most highly admired companies in the world, including Coca-Cola, Toyota and Sony. 

Mark Lamster|Essays

The Real Thing

Tropicana has been getting a lot of flack over its redesigned juice cartons. Steve Heller called the rebranding "a mistake." Jason Kottke simply dubbed it "sucky." Let me respectfully disagree.

Dmitri Siegel|Essays

Paper, Plastic, or Canvas?

Whale tote bag, Hugo Guiness, 2008Amidst all the despair in the last few years about the slow extinction of various design-friendly formats — the vinyl LP, the newspaper, the book, etc. — one vehicle for graphic design has vaulted to …