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The Treachery of Images: Design’s Toxic Assets, and the Foundations of a New Future Processing (,.,.,.,.,.,.,) is a You may also listen to this piece in audio form, read by the author: Unbridled Capitalism (for most) is an abstraction. From the inside it’s hard to see edges—places where it does not exist. In this time when everything being for sale is normal—including the delivery of your purchases to your front door, car or screen—there is healthy competition to serve our best and worst impulses, and we would do well to know the difference. Design has its own values. See any desi...

The original SF Exploratorium like you've never seen it before FacebookTwitterEmail A scene from the 1974 film "Exploratorium."Jon Boorstin In the 1974 Academy Award-nominated documentary “Exploratorium,” the camera zooms in on a hypnotic spiraling “Depth Spinner,” an exhibit designed to show how the eye and brain process motion (and make you a little dizzy in the process). “Look at the center, just keep looking at the center of it,” commands a woman’s voice off-screen. A man responds: “This is beautiful, I’m just tripping out on this.” "Trippy" is an accurate word to desc...

An online exhibition of select works was organised to commemorate Dashrath Patel’s 10th death anniversary this year Dashrath Patel, among modern India’s most versatile yet lesser known artists, made memorable contributions to painting, photography, ceramics and design — a body of work that is today coming in for a serious relook. On his 10th anniversary this year, an online exhibition was organised, showcasing a selection from his large range of works and giving a glimpse of Patel’s immense creativity. Curated by arts critic and writer Sadanand Menon and technically designed by Miti D...

The Best Graphic Design of the Year: Announcing the Winners of the PRINT Awards In 2020, after being independently acquired by a group of the industry’s best design minds, PRINT launched its first significant website redesign in a decade, and returned to the design scene to provide more inspiration, design thinking in action, thoughtful longreads, and eye candy galore than ever before. We also took stock of our signature annual competition—the Regional Design Awards—and decided it was time to bring it into the present like never before. When it launched in 1980, the competition had a ...

Ford Places Its Future Bet on a Renewed Detroit Dec 15, 2020 During the post-World War II era, U.S. automakers achieved far more than transforming the country’s transport systems and infrastructure (for better or worse). Companies like General Motors and Ford also had an impact on American architecture that reached its zenith during the 1950s and 1960s. Designers including Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames left their mark on Detroit and much of Michigan, whether it was at the massive GM campus in Warren, Michigan, or the iconic mid-century tables and chairs from the likes of Charles and Ray...