Technology

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Learning New Tricks

Harvard doesn't have any design courses, but I've found new friends in "material culture." What it's like for a critic to go back to school.

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.

John Maeda|Insights Per Minute

John Maeda on Loops

We’re in the same loop. Culture lags. Art and design have to pick up the slack.

Rob Walker|Insights Per Minute

Rob Walker on Seeing

Rob Walker is a technology/culture columnist for Yahoo News. He is the former Consumed columnist for The New York Times Magazine, and has contributed to many publications.

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

Soft Machine’s Dysfunctional Mechanism

An alternative cover for the French release of The Soft Machine’s first album alludes to the history of the machine in 20th-century art.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Interaction of Color

Brenda Danilowitz, Chief Curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Potion principal Philip Tiongson discuss the new Interaction of Color app.

Observed|Projects

Eyes on the Sky: Weather Visualized

Jed Carter's new book of watercolors, Eyes on the Sky, is a process-based investigation into generative design and the weather.

Observed|Essays

Iron Man 3 Titles

An interesting look at the design process for the Iron Man 3 title screens.

Observed|Miscellaneous

Design Observer on Apple

A quick Design Observer cameo in the MacBook Pro video.

Observed|Ob-Deviations

My 3-D Life

Meanwhile, what’s to stop me from printing some caviar, or an Oscar? A pony? Or a Porsche? Musings on what to print on your home 3-D printer.

Observed|Essays

When Google Earth Goes Wrong

Clement Valla is an artist in Brooklyn, New York who discovers and collects ‘anomalies’ within the Google Earth system in his ongoing series entitled Postcards from Google Earth.