Social Good

Observed|Projects

Wheat Paste Graffiti in Detroit

Graphic Design students of Dan Sinclair at Eastern Michigan University wheat pasted their posters in a sanctioned area of Detroit

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, Freelancer

One of the incidental pleasures of Judith Major’s new book on pioneering architecture critic Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer is the glimpse it gives into the life of a cultural journalist at the turn of the past century.

Natalie Foster|Insights Per Minute

Natalie Foster on Sharing

Natalie Foster is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Peers.

Observed|Events

Art Center Launches LEAP Symposium Website

LEAP participants (at Art Center September 19-21) bring a variety of experience across the Private, Social and Public Sectors and Social Enterprise. A webside for the Symposium was launched September 3, 2013.

Cheryl Heller|Essays

Forget Poverty. Let’s Talk Business.

In a recent article on the future of design, I used Paul Polak as a case for why generalists are so important to the world right now.

John Thackara|Essays

Speed? What Speed? The Belly-Dance Drummer, by Matthias Rieger

Matthias Rieger with some remarks about speed from a belly-dance drummer’s point of view.

Nicholas Christakis|Insights Per Minute

Nicholas Christakis on Networks

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity.

John Thackara|Essays

Flyways

A meditation on the migratory patterns of birds and sheep.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A World of Paste and Paper

Today's obsession with digital renderings sparked two exhibitions that suggest a handmade, but far from quaint, corrective.

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Hotel that Dreamed It Was a Museum

The Walpole Bay Hotel: Living Museum, junk-clogged bane of hotel inspectors, or Wunderkammer?

John Thackara|Essays

Between Sorrel And Supertanker

John Thackara reviews the recent Doors of Perception xskool.

Observed|Photos

From Dance Hall to Design Studio to Dance Hall

Jeremy M. Lange photographs the inaugural dance held in the restored barn that used to be his grandfather's design studio.