Art

Fri Forjindam talks with hosts Doreen Lorenzo and Michael Baker about her journey from Cameroon to becoming a leading voice in experience design and her philosophy that creativity is both a civic responsibility and an economic driver. Her story exemplifies the power of living with curiosity and developing creative courage. … ultimately, it’s about faith […]

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. Kate Hamilton is the co-founder of Sonder & Tell, a brand consultancy that helps businesses define

On the heels of Donald Trump’s attacks on how the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery is portrayed in Smithsonian institutions and elsewhere, the president added another notch to his engorged executive portfolio with the establishment of a new National Design Studio. Trump appointed Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia as the first governmental chief design officer to

The hard-hitting news of last week centered around an unlikely subject: Cracker Barrel. That wasn’t on our weekly BINGO cards, but we’re always here for some rebrand drama. The Tennessee-born Southern country-themed chain of restaurants unveiled a new logo and interior design last week, and immediately faced backlash from its conservative customer base for being

I get off the Metro-North train from Fairfield to Grand Central Station in Manhattan, take the side escalator into the MetLife Building, which, when I was a child, was the Walter Gropius-designed PanAm Building. I walk through the second-floor lobby, stop at Black Seed bagels for a toasted sourdough everything bagel with a light schmear

This week on the DesignThinkers podcast, host Nicola Hamilton is joined by Verònica Fuerte, the founder and creative director of Hey Studio in Barcelona. Since launching the studio in 2007, Huerte has built one of the most recognizable and beloved visual identities in contemporary design: known for bold color, geometric forms, and a relentlessly optimistic

Johnny Selman is not a passive observer of the complex news cycle. Fifteen years ago, when I met him, he had begun BBCx365, conceiving and designing a post a day as visual commentary on a BBC headline. By the end of the year he had completed 365 of what became his entree to editorial commentary.

When I initially interviewed the writer and editor John Kelly over a year ago he was putting the final touches on his real live ink-on-paper printed magazine titled Dummy about comics, comic artists, cartoons and cartoonists. “After reading the first issue, featuring oral histories on ‘The Art of Pee-wee’s Playhouse,’ I was excited to get

Few elements in branding generate as much attention, or anxiety, as the logo. In fact, “logo” and “brand” are often used interchangeably, though they are far from the same. A logo is not your brand. It is the most concise, recognizable visual shorthand for your brand. Think of it like a memory box. It distills

In Breaking the Code’s 50th episode, hosts Gabriel Allen-Cummings and Sonika Garcia are joined by BtC’s 2025 summer intern, Gabriel Robinson. This conversation began because of Robinson’s curiosity about social media being used for self-diagnosis, and it evolved to cover HCPs on social media, generational nuances in social media use, and the emergence of AI