From homegrown furniture to fermented textiles to circular models of local material production.
Matthew Wizinsky | Oct 14, 2022
Harvard's LCGSA was a significant educational experiment, training one of the first generations of designers in computers and new media.
Evangelos Kotsioris | Oct 6, 2022
In praise of truly interdisciplinary thinking.
Graham Pullin | May 25, 2022
An excerpt from "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births."
Michelle Millar Fisher & Amber Winick | Apr 28, 2022
An excerpt from “Design to Live,” documenting designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan.
Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub, and Melina Philippou | Mar 22, 2022
The Russians may have been winning the space race in the 1950s, but they couldn’t hold a candle to the sophistication of Western dress.
Djurdja Bartlett | Jul 23, 2021
A wave of statistical enthusiasm, coupled with new technologies, paved the way for data visualization that laid the foundations for social reform in 19th-century Britain.
Murray Dick | Aug 26, 2020
If evolution is seen as the study of unseen development, the camera provided the illusion of quantifiable benchmarks, an irresistible proposition for the advocates of eugenics.
Jessica Helfand | Aug 3, 2020
The creative process demands openness to the unexpected and a recognition that what we “have in mind” may not be at all what is beginning to transpire before us.
Christopher Bardt | Feb 10, 2020
When my sister suffered from Rett Syndrome, an old patterning table — and a dubious therapy — brought my community together and offered hope.
Adriana Knouf | Oct 28, 2019
