Social Good

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Julie Lasky|Projects

DesigNYC

DesigNYC is the latest grass-roots organization to match socially minded designers with nonprofits.

Ernest Beck|Projects

GlobalTap

Report on prototype for GlobalTap water refilling stations.

Mitch Epstein|Gallery

Why Not in My Backyard?

Mitch Epstein's photo of Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond City, West Virginia 2004, from his book American Power (Steidl, 2009).

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A Real Modern Monument

Peter Behrens’ AEG Turbine Hall is still in use and is still as striking as the day it was completed — so shouldn't that be the goal for every building?

Tony Whitfield|Opinions

Prepared for Haiti

Tony Whitfield meditates on the assistance designers should give in Haiti following the earthquake, and in future catastrophes.

Ernest Beck|Report

State of Shelter

Relief organizations still rely on the same basic options for emergency housing, but new ideas are taking hold.

Jane Margolies|Projects

Rising Currents

Report on "Rising Currents," an exhibition of New York City design solutions to the flooding predicted by climate change experts, which will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, March 24–August 9, 2010.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Designing the Unthinkable

For more than fifty years, there have been arguments against nuclear proliferation. The Doomsday Clock translates all the arguments to a simple visual analogy.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen|Essays

Moshe Safdie

Review of architect Moshe Safdie's Mamilla Alrov Center in Jerusalem.

Rachel Berger|Essays

A Makeover for the BART Map

Unlike the notorious 1972 Massimo Vignelli redesign of the New York City subway map, the new BART map didn't make much of a splash in graphic design circles.