Media

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Animal Magnetism

Magazines are the sole industry in which you cannot help but judge a book by its cover.

Chika Azuma|Essays

Chika Azuma: Taking Things Seriously VII

Debbie Millman|Audio

Vaughan Oliver

Legendary graphic designer Vaughan Oliver is also an artist and the author of several books, including Exhibition/Exposition and This Rimy River.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Kurt Andersen

Kurt Andersen is an award-winning journalist, author and host of the Peabody-winning public radio program, Studio 360.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Eric Kandel

Nobel prize winner Eric Kandel is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia University. 

Beth Daniels|Essays

Beth Daniels: Taking Things Seriously VI

Debbie Millman|Audio

Chip Kidd

Book designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd is also the author of several books including The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners: A Novel. 

Debbie Millman|Audio

Chip Kidd

Book designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd is also the author of several books including The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners: A Novel. 

Debbie Millman|Audio

Chip Kidd

Book designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd is also the author of several books including The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners: A Novel. 

Andrew Blauvelt|Essays

The Work of Task

Cover of Task #1, designed by Emmet Byrne, Alex DeArmond & Jon Sueda, 2007A large, black poster hangs on the wall with the reassuring statement: "Don't worry it's going to be great." Posted among the everyday clutter of someone's …

William Drenttel|Essays

Polling Place Photo Project 2008

The New York Times, politics page, January 2008A little more than a week before the November 2006 U.S. midterm elections, Design Observer and AIGA launched an online initiative in citizen journalism — voters across the country were asked …

Michael Bierut|Essays

Will the Real Ernst Bettler Please Stand Up?

In the late 50s, Swiss designer Ernst Bettler created a series of seemingly harmless posters that brought down a drug company with a Nazi past. It's a great story, but it never happened. Why do we need to believe in Ernst Bettler?