Media

Mark Lamster|Essays

Planet M

My friend Gideon Lewis-Kraus's beautifully written Harper's piece on the last Frankfurt Book Fair is the talk of the publishing world.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Natalia Ilyin

Natalia Ilyin is a design critic and educator and ithe author of two books — Blonde Like Me, and Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Modernist Design in Our Time.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Joe Duffy + Nate Voss

The Reflex Blue's Nate Voss interviews Joe Duffy about his work for some of the most highly admired companies in the world, including Coca-Cola, Toyota and Sony. 

Mark Lamster|Essays

Roid Rage

The baseball world is up-in-arms over the revelations that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroid use a few years ago. My suggestion: move along, folks.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Steve Heller + Lita Talerico

Debbie Millman interviews Lita Talarico and Steven Heller, co-founders of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts.

The Editors|Miscellaneous

Julie Lasky & Ernest Beck Join Design Observer

Now in our fifth year, Design Observer is taking another step forward. It is with great pleasure we announce that Julie Lasky and Ernest Beck will be joining the Design Observer team as our website makes a major editorial expansion to …

Steven Heller|Essays

The Good Books

Kommt, sehet de Kunst, Die Bibliophilen TaschenbücherWhy can’t American publishers produce a series of good — no great — books on graphic culture like Die Bibliophilen Taschenbücher? Published in 1979 by Harenberg Kommunikation, …

Steven Heller|Essays

That Pesky Television Test Pattern

Indian head test patternWhat came first, television or the television test pattern? By all accounts, the once ubiquitous, static bullseye that appeared on kinescopes and cathode ray tubes from the 40s through the 70s before stations began …

Kerry Saretsky|Reviews

Curious Case of the Better Adaptation

Tales of the Jazz Age, the collection of stories in which The Curious Case of Benjamin Button first appeared in 1922. Illustration by John Held, Jr. Now that I am comfortably “well-read” in my twenties with a Master’s in modern …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Neville Brody

An interview with former Face Magazine art director Neville Brody who has been at the forefront of design for more than two decades.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Neville Brody

An interview with former Face Magazine art director Neville Brody who has been at the forefront of design for more than two decades.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Master of Shadows: The Cover

Behold the cover for Master of Shadows, which releases this coming October.