Media

Adrian Shaughnessy|Essays

"I Sold My Soul And I Love It"

Creative Review cover, February 2007.The current issue of Creative Review is "guest edited" by hip British advertising agency Mother. As is the way with "guest editors," Mother hasn't actually edited the magazine; instead, they've …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Doyald Young

Master typographer Doyald Young is also the author of The Art of the Letter, Logotypes, and Letterforms: Handlettered Logotypes and Other Typographic Considerations.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Designers, Writers + Magazines

A conversation with Print’s Joyce Rutter Kaye; Dwell’s Michela Abrahms; Barbara DeWilde of House Beautiful and Laetitia Wolff of Surface.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Ze Frank

Debbie Millman interviews Ze Frank — writer, designer and host of The Ze Frank Show.

Michael Bierut|Essays

The It Factor

In their 1983 book Quintessence: The Quality of Having It, Owen Edwards and Betty Cornfeld created an elegant and influential treatise in what makes something the real thing, a lesson that Steve Jobs has obviously absorbed.

Michael Erard|Essays

Word Made Flesh

Diagram of quote attributed to Groucho Marx, "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana," from Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey, illustrated by …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Seth Godin

Seth Godin is the author of Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Seth Godin

Seth Godin is the author of Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Seth Godin

Seth Godin is the author of Purple Cow and All Marketers Are Liars.

William Drenttel|Slideshows

Diversity as Form: The Yale Architecture Posters

Cover detail, Forty Posters for the Yale School of Architecture, 2006.Since 1998, Design Observer's Michael Bierut has worked in close collaboration with Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, designing more than 40 …

Debbie Millman|Audio

Malcolm Gladwell + Joyce Gladwell

An interview with Malcolm Gladwell, author of The New York Times bestseller Outliers and Joyce Gladwell, author of Brown Face.

Alissa Walker|Essays

War Is Over! If You Want It

Yoko Ono and John Lennon with peace campaign poster against the Vietnam War, 1969. Photograph by Frank Barratt/Getty Images.When the star of the documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon is asked by a reporter what he thinks Nixon should do to …