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Our pick of design-related activities and releases this month include a new podcast on book cover design, the third Design for Planet Festival and an exhibition on skateboards.

As two years passes since Thomas Heatherwick's Vessel was closed following a spate of suicides, Matt Shaw reflects on what went wrong.

Your answer to that question will depend largely on where you sit in the world. The phrase Design Thinking is known almost universally in design circles. It’s made its way around networks of business…

When it comes to the world of hair branding … what happens if you have none?

On New Yorker covers and elsewhere, he lampooned the rich by forecasting a plutocratic fantasyland — or, as he put it, “looking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow.”

Bruce McCall's satirical illustrations for National Lampoon and The New Yorker conjured up a plutocratic dream world of luxury zeppelin travel, indoor golf courses and cars such as the Bulgemobile Airdreme.

We revisit our conversation with Jude Stewart about her book Revelations in Air, taking us us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell.

Must-read graphic design books for designers at every stage of their career. How many have you read?

Designer Debbie Millman and author Roxane Gay visited the University at Albany for a conversation with WAMC’s Joe Donahue as part of The Creative Life: A Conversation Series on Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center on the University at Albany’s Uptown Campus.

Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. In her new book “Revelations in Air,” Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell.