Business

Michael Bierut|Audio

S5E5: Forest Young

Forest Young is head of design and a global principal at the branding consultancy Wolff Olins.

Jason Tselentis|Essays

The Annals of Smart Speaker Advertising: Overused Advertising Copy

Amazon, Google, and Apple promise that each of their smart speakers will do what you want and get what you need. And they all promise it using the same language.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Margaret Gould Stewart

Margaret Gould Stewart is Vice-President of Product Design at Facebook where she leads a global team of product designers and researchers for teams such as Artificial Intelligence and Privacy & Data Use.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Beth Comstock

Debbie talks to Beth Comstock about her career at General Electric and how big companies can innovate.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Arthur Cohen

I support a world in which design is not elevated and codified into some idealized “other,” but rather integrated into everyday practice that is just good business.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Randy J. Hunt

“There are examples of designs that were the spark of an innovation and there are examples of designs that added to and evolved an otherwise already innovative idea.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Grace Jun

“Design is way of seeing and a way of doing. A unique perspective and method that combined can lead to innovation.”

Debbie Millman|Audio

Design Matters from the Archive: Simon Sinek

Debbie Millman talks to optimist, ethnographer, and author Simon Sinek about the fruits of good leadership.

Steven Heller|Essays

Everything Goes With Everything...

A document summing up Eliot Noyes design philosophy: found in Paul Rand’s papers.

Steven Heller|Essays

Creative Action Network: Profiting From A Nonprofit

CAN’s mission is putting artists to work telling stories that matter.

Steven Heller|Essays

Vanishing Mom and Pop Store Signs

It is, of course, inevitable that modernity subsumes the old. But for a New York minute, we can still enjoy these disappearing store fronts.

The Editors|Collections

Diagramming Mechanisms

John Pass portrays the inner mechanical workings of apparatuses through his eye for diagrammatic design in these colorful, early-nineteenth century engravings.