Business

William Drenttel|Essays

Al Gore for President

In Al Gore's just-released book, Assault on Reason, he argues that the Bush Administration has used "the language and politics of fear" to "drive the public agenda without regard to the evidence, the facts or the public interest." The key …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Jan Wilker + Hjalti Karlsson

Jan Wilker and Hjalti Karlsson are partners in karlssonwilker and the authors of Tell Me Why.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Alice Twemlow

British-born Alice Twemlow is a design critic and the author of What Is Graphic Design For? She also chairs the Design Criticism department at the School of Visual Arts in New York.     

Debbie Millman|Audio

Luke Hayman

Previously Design Director at I.D. Magazine, Brill’s Content,Travel + Leisure, and New York Magazine, Luke Hayman is now a partner in the New York office of Pentagram.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Janet Froelich

An interview with Janet Froelich, former Creative Director at The New York Times Magazine, who is currently Design Director at Real Simple.

Jesse Nivens|Essays

In Search of Stock(y) Photography

Odalisca, Fernando Botero, 1998I work for a company that manufactures fitness equipment. While working on a new marketing piece, I found myself in the seemingly normal situation of needing a general stock photograph of an overweight …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Barbara Kruger

An interview with American artist Barbara Kruger.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Our Little Secret

The documentary Helvetica premieres in a world where everyone knows how to do something that once only very few did: how to set type.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Dancing to the Sound in Your Head

We might not appreciate advertising conducted like a saturation bombing campaign in public spaces. Yet now, to complicate things, the personal stereo is being used as a way of reasserting spontaneity, exuberance and passion in …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Luba Lukova

An interview with award-winning illustrator Luba Lukova, whose work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress and Bibliotheque Nationale in France. 

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Annals of Ephemera: Town & Country Cookbook

Cover, Town and Country Cookbook, 1953Books are, by their very nature, often judged by their covers. Like miniature posters or single-frame film trailers, the book cover is the visual prologue to what lies beneath. Book cover designers are …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Maira Kalman

An interview with the remarkable Maira Kalman — the closest thing we in the United States have to a National Treasure.