Education

Rick Poynor|Exposure

Exposure: Operating Room by Augustine H. Folsom

Early surgery as public theater

Sheena Calvert|Thesis Book Project

Thesis Book Story: Sheena Calvert

A Visual Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake

Jessica Helfand|Thesis Book Project

License to Risk: The Square Revisited

Jessica Helfand shares her MFA thesis

Rob Walker|Essays

Assignments for Yourself

A designer's book of self-assignments prompts us to learn by going "beyond what is asked" in our workaday professional lives.

Mark Yoes|Essays

Elinor Evans : Some Truths from the Master

The artist, educator, and architecture guru Elinor Evans turns 100.

Kenneth FitzGerald|Essays

Yourselves: Declaring Ourselves

Exploring the interests of the AIGA Design Educators Community

Alex Knowlton|Essays

Miami Nice

Alex Knowlton reviews this year's ADC Festival of Art + Craft in Advertising and Design in Miami Beach.

David Morris|Books

The Last Truly Free Space in America

The public library is a singularly American invention whose prime directive has been to protect access to information.

Observed|Miscellaneous

2014 Porto Summer Editorial Design Course

Herewith, why you should seriously consider the  2014 Porto Summer Editorial Design Course.

John Thackara|Essays

Summer Xskool in Sweden

This year’s Doors of Perception Summer Xskool explores what it can mean in practice to move from a ‘do less harm’ approach to sustainability to a practice of leave things better.

Observed|Miscellaneous

Porto Design Summer School

Porto is an undiscovered gem for designers everywhere: an astonishingly affordable, visually extraordinary European oasis right on the coast of Portugal, where typography reigns supreme. It's also a summer destination for two weeks of …

Chris Pullman|Essays

Remembering Alvin Eisenman

Alvin Eisenman received the AIGA Medal in October, 1991. Chris Pullman, a student in Eisenman's class of 1966 — and a member of the faculty ever since — gave these remarks at the event.