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Topics Podcasts Jobs Newsletters Books Conferences Advertise Masthead Topics | Podcasts | Jobs | Newsletters | Books | Conferences Advertise | Masthead Akansha Kukreja | Essay Information Design for Healthcare Steven Heller | Essays Graphic Emergency Emerges in Poland Political struggle has long fueled and catalyzed much of Poland’s historically visual innovations... Scott Boylston | Essays Design, Belonging, and Human Capabilities The space between what we hope to achieve in our lives and the realization of those desires is riddled with contradiction and confrontation.... Debbie Millman | Audio Gabrielle Hamilton On this episode Debbie talks to Gabrielle Hamilton about her career as a chef, and as a late-blooming writer.... Jessica Helfand + Bobby C. Martin, Jr. | Audio Episode 130: Tackling History With Bobby C. Martin, Jr.: rebranding Champions Design; football in Washington; demands for change at design schools; cooking during quarantine.... Steven Heller | Interviews Breaking Bread With The Dead An interview with Erica Heller, author and editor of the new book One Last Lunch. ... Jessica Helfand | Terms of Service We (All) The People We the people means all—not just some of the people.... Debbie Millman | Audio Mauro Porcini Debbie talks to Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer at Pepsico, about his childhood and his corporate work.... Steven Heller | Interviews Jerseys To Remember Since 2013, in the wake of the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, the New York based photographer and filmmaker Raafi Rivero has designed a series of basketball jerseys with the team name “Unarmed.”... The Editors | Celebrations Happy Birthday, Steven Heller! Happy Birthday, Steve. Here’s looking at the next seventy years. We can’t wait.... Debbie Millman | Audio V (formerly Eve Ensler) Debbie talks with V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) about her abusive father and how feminism has shaped her career.... Observed | July 22 Futurefeed is an online space where writers, artists, and thinkers are invited to experiment + explore ideas that are important to them over an extended period of time. [JH] Observed | July 21 Open a new window somewhere in the world. [BV] The X-Prize Mask Challenge is looking for a face mask that is attractive, innovative, and achieves the filtration efficacy on par with a surgical mask. PS: You also have to be under 25 years old to enter. (Via Kim Baer.) [JH] Observed | July 16 How Mexico City crowdsourced a map of its riotous informal bus system. [BV] The atlas of surveillance . (Yes, you read that right.) [JH] Observed | July 15 Social Matter, Social Design challenges the way we look at, think of, and interact with the social world by emphasizing the role of materiality. [JH] When governors are graphic designers: a continuing story . [JH] Observed | July 14 Design For America, the World Design Organization, and IBM team up to launch the COVID Design Challenge . [JH] A national reckoning: why It is falling to individuals to become their own interim museums and archives . [JH] Observed | July 10 Together again for the very first time, Microsoft ditches backgrounds for foregrounds —like simulated office desks. [JH] A new, coronavirus-inspired concoction at Alinea, one of the world’s most famous restaurants, is spurring backlash online . (via Blake Eskin) [BV] Observed | July 08 A look inside the typography of the Biden campaign , by Hoefler & Co. [JH] Observed | July 06 Designer and photographer Margaret Morton , who taught for many years at Cooper Union and at Yale, died last week at her home in New York City. She was 71. [JH] Observed | July 03 Architect James Biber on backgrounds as the new foregrounds . (Via Adrian Shaughnessy.) [JH] Observed | July 01 An exhaustive study of house address number styles . (via James I. Bowie ) [BV] Observed | June 29 Aric Jenkins curated some essential writing on racial inequity and injustice in urban planning and design for Pocket. [BV] Alice Rawsthorn and Paula Antonelli cohost Design Emergency , a new series on Instagram Live. [JH] Observed | June 26 In the “you can’t make this shit up” department, from the company once described as a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money , Goldman Sachs releases a new font you’re not allowed to criticize Goldman Sachs with. (H/T Jeffrey Kittay) [JH] Observed | June 24 The Drift is a new online magazine about politics and culture. (Don’t miss what bores them.) [JH] Observed | June 23 June 24 at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern: don‘t miss Rachel Gogel speaking in the Ladies Who Create series from Dropbox. [JH] Observed | June 10 IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology . [BV] Observed | June 01 For the Army Corps of Engineers in 1944, Harold Fisk created extraordinarily beautiful maps of the changing Mississippi River over time. [MB] Observed | May 29 A brilliant and timely design exploration : Alexandra Bell disrupts perception by rewriting headlines. (Via Lana Rigsby.) [JH] Observed | May 28 The new book from Scott Berkun, How Design Makes the World , “will help you see design everywhere and question why it works—or why it fails.”—Ellen Lupton. Watch the trailer . [BV] Observed | May 27 Kate Wagner at McMansionHell on the rise of Coronagrifting : “cheap mockups of COVID-related design ‘solutions’ filling the endlessly scrollable feeds of PR-beholden design websites” [MB] Observed | May 21 Former Design of Business | Business of Design podcast guest David Rockwell creates a kit for instant outdoor restaurant dining . [MB] Observed | May 20 Floodwaters threaten Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House . [MB] Observed | May 19 A map featuring the 222 typefaces named for American places. (via James I. Bowie ) [BV] Observed | May 15 Matteo Zallio, a design research scholar from Stanford, has developed a multipurpose tool as an open source response to COVID-19 outbreaks.. [BV] Observed | May 14 Seven artists on how creating during the quarantine is helping them find solace and meaning in this period of uncertainty and paralyzing anxiety. [BV] Jobs | July 26 Contact | Policy | Terms of Use © 2003-2017 Observer Omnimedia LLC. “Design Observer ” is a registered trademark of Observer Omnimedia LLC....