Technology

Rick Poynor|Essays

The Dictionary as Art Concept

A new Magritte exhibition catalogue is not the first to take the form of a dictionary. How important is originality when it comes to book design?

John Thackara|Essays

Geeked-out Gardening

A “computer that runs your garden” also known as an Automated Garden Facility (AGF), also known as Garduino.

Rob Walker|Essays

Dedigitization

“Digital goods” are increasingly seen as having real value. Increasingly, though, things from the digital world are crossing over into physical manifestations that can be bought and sold.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

An Atlas of Possibility

The Institute for Urban Design's By the City/For the City project provokes crowd-sourced possibilities for New York's future.

Maria Popova|Interviews

A Voice for LGBTQ in the Middle East

Interview with Esra'a Al Shafei, founder of Ahwaa, a portal for LGBTQ issues in the Middle East

Rick Poynor|Essays

A Dream World Made by Machines

Adam Curtis’s All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a complex, demanding, audacious piece of television.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Vicarious Thrifting, via Twitter

On the lively, effective and erudite thrifting community on Twitter.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Project Mwana

A new effort to diagnosis and treat infant HIV/AIDS in remote African regions.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Paul Stiff, the Reader’s Champion

For the late Paul Stiff, design educator, writer, editor and skeptic, typography must never neglect to serve the reader.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

All That Glitters (and Swoops)

What reviews of aberrant design and Van Cleef diamonds have in common: the death of the design show.

Josh Wallaert|Essays

Google Maps, Give Us Our River Names

No map in history has made us feel more powerful or more present. But there's a little thing missing: the Mississippi River.

Julie Lasky|Reviews

Design Indaba 2011

Review of Design Indaba 2011 conference in Cape Town, South Africa