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Alexandra Lange|Essays

D/R Love

There is much online excitement about the D/R exhibition, opening tomorrow.

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Jessica Helfand|Essays

All Things Matter

His name was Herbert Matter, a man even the ornery Paul Rand described as possibly the least pompous person on the planet. When I was a junior in college, he taught me how to make a Photogram. He was 74 years old.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Love & Architecture

When Aline met Eero in January 1953, she was the associate art editor and critic for the New York Times. A little over a year later she would become Aline B. Saarinen.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Love & Architecture

When Aline met Eero in January 1953, she was the associate art editor and critic for the New York Times. A little over a year later she would become Aline B. Saarinen.

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Mark Lamster|Essays

Peter Paul Rubens: Graphic Designer

In his day, Rubens was also revered as a diplomat, an architect, a classical scholar, and even a graphic designer.

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Steven Heller|Essays

Ramparts: Agent of Change

Ramparts magazine has been dead for almost two decades, but to look back at it, it stands out as one to remember.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

D/R Rising

Jane Thompson, Ben Thompson’s widow and former partner, has organized an installation with a number of former D/R employees.

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Lost Research

My nostalgia for box numbers and call slips was provoked by the news in yesterday’s Times that years of files from industrial designer Gilbert Rohde’s office were found in an unpaid storage unit,

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Alexandra Lange|Essays

Nothing Runs Like A...

A note about Deere & Company’s foray into the consumer market.

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John Emerson|Interviews

Pressed into Service

Interview with Lincoln Cushing, co-author of Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters.

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Mark Lamster|Essays

The Lion of Belgium

In the history of strange maps, this image of Belgium as a lion, printed in 1611 by cartographer Jodicus Hondius of Amsterdam, is surely a classic

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Ars Libri Ltd|Collections

Hungarian Rhapsody

This collection is the record of the immensely productive life of György Kepes.

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