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Five minutes is rarely an eternity, but it’s a lot more time than you think. I experienced this in Tokyo in meetings with the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company. The meetings ran with an engineer’s precision. My allotment for the creative proposals was usually 5 minutes — no more. No less. You learn to tell […]

Milton Glaser was an early adopter of “flower power.” His Poppy Records and Monet at Giverny posters attest to a long love affair with flora. But his passion for nature goes back further than the hippie flirtation with petal pushing. Since the publication of Milton Glaser: POP, Mirko Ilić has been relentlessly on the prowl

What do we do when our stories about alien intelligences start to prejudice our interactions with them in the real world? That’s not a question we’ve had to seriously consider until November 2022. That’s when OpenAI released its “research preview” of ChatGPT. Within 45 days, ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer software release in history, with

In this conversation, Vilma Livas, chief marketing officer at Nature’s Bakery, discusses the brand’s purpose of providing healthier snack options for families and the importance of convenience, taste, and value in their product development process. Livas and host Gage Mitchell discuss the impact of the company’s acquisition by Mars and how it has allowed for

For women’s soccer fans, all eyes are on Switzerland this summer, as women’s national teams from 16 countries face off at the European Championships. The English women’s national team is the defending champion and boasts a star-studded roster including Manchester United’s Ella Toone. Toone is a stand-out midfielder in the Women’s Super League in England

It is hard to ignore the word “plop,” whether verb or noun. In this case, PLOP! is the name of the 1973 DC Comics series edited by the former MAD editor and then VP at DC, Joe Orlando. PLOP! was an ill-fated attempt to produce a Harvey Kurtzman-esque aesthetic and MAD-like cartoon ecosystem that had

The Bridge Tender House is a streamlined-style, stainless-steel building from which bridge tenders once operated a drawbridge over the Miami River. It was installed in 1939 and partially funded by the Public Works Administration, a program within President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to help the nation recover from the Great Depression. The structure is a

What if your morning commute could diagnose a spinal issue before you even made it to work? In a compelling blend of public health, technology, and design, Croatia Polyclinic has partnered with Croatian-based agency Bruketa&Žinić&Grey to turn a national health crisis into a moment of creative intervention. Facing what experts call a “silent pandemic” of

When we find ourselves in a new place, especially in urban environments, we seek out signage to help us orient and find our way. A city’s signage also helps us get a sense of the particular aesthetics of that place. When designer Federico Parra Barrios relocated from Bogotá to Berlin in early 2024, he became

Debbie Millman’s ongoing project “What Matters,” an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers, is now in its third year. Each respondent is invited to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph. TJ Hoover is co-lead with Darrius Medina of See You Later, a duo behind some of