Media

Rick Poynor|Essays

Keld Helmer-Petersen: Pioneer of Color

An accessible edition of Keld Helmer-Petersen’s 122 Colour Photographs, a landmark 1948 photobook.

John Bertram|Books

Lolita — The Story of a Cover Girl

Excerpt from Lolita — The Story of a Cover Girl.

Rick Poynor|Essays

David Maisel and the Apocalyptic Sublime

David Maisel’s photographs are visions of the Earth as we have never seen it full of beauty and terror.

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 08.08.13

Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907 by Christian Witt-Dorring; Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony Townsend; Design: The Groundbreaking Moments by Nina Kozel; Museum of Fine Arts, …

Ralph Caplan|My First Job

The Trip From Bountyful

Ralph Caplan on his first job: staff writer on a putatively satirical magazine just being formed.

Rob Walker|Essays

Looking Better, All The Time

Alexandra Horowitz' book On Looking offers a framework, and specific tactics, for smarter seeing.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Hartmut Esslinger

Frog design co-founder Hartmut Esslinger talks about working for Steve Jobs in the early days of Apple.

Observed|Books

Recent Books Received: 07.24.13

Architects from A to Z by Paul Cattermole and Simon Forty; Peter Kluska: Landscape Architecture by Peter Kluska; The Designer as: Author, Producer, Activist, Entrepeneur, Curator, and Collaborator: New Models for Communicating by Steven …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Nevermind the Masterpiece

What's your "Masterpiece of Everyday New York"? A broken umbrella? A shirtwaist? Discarded gum?

Observed|New Ideas

A Book for Two

A new design for a shared reading experience from designer Soofiya Chaudry.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Jean-Louis Cohen

Jean-Louis Cohen reveals a Le Corbusier who was not only a great architect, but also a savvy promoter of his own ideas and work.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

The Voynich Manuscript

Accidental Mysteries for July 14, 2013 focuses on the rare and undecipherable Voynich manuscript.