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I was never compelled to teach my son how to bake a cake when he was young—the kitchen disaster that awaited was beyond my ken. However, if Lotta Nieminen’s Cake: An Interactive Recipe Book (Phaidon) had been published in the 1990s, I might have felt otherwise. Nieminen, whose “Cook in a Book” books are illustrated […]

In this episode, hosts Doreen Lorenzo and Michael Baker speak with comedian, writer, musician and playwright Luna Malbroux, founder of Joy Channel, and A.J. Haynes, Creative Doula for Joy Channel and lead singer of the internationally acclaimed band, Seratones. Both are multidisciplinary artists and activists who use creativity to help organizations transform their cultures through

We’ll bet you’ve encountered this common workflow snag: you’ve done your research for a new client pitch and fallen in love with a typeface, only to find it impossible to explore its creative possibilities before entering into a cumbersome license or pricey subscription. Typographer, a new app (now in beta) created by The Type Founders,

The earliest stage of any creative project carries the most voltage – that quickening when inspiration strikes and half-formed thoughts jostle for attention. Now, with Adobe Firefly Boards, creatives can harness that spark on an AI-powered collaborative canvas that brings the world’s leading generative models to their fingertips. Built to mirror the way designers actually

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. Pedro Izique is a creative director at Someplace in Los Angeles. He has won numerous times

Illustrator Raymond Biesinger has experienced a range of good and bad deeds from honest and not-so-trustworthy clients and non-clients. But the one act of misanthropy that bugs him the most is being ripped off. It rattled him enough to write a book about what to do when your creative property has been borrowed, stolen or

Before appearing in The Godfather I (1970) and Annie Hall (1977), Diane Keaton (1946-2025) was a star in my eyes. I was smitten at first gaze for the first time in a 1969 commercial for Hour After Hour deodorant, a thirty-second spot of performative genius that showcased her vivacious charisma. When she literally jogged onto

Designworks CEO Julia de Bono is fond of quoting author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry when brainstorming and revising concepts with designers: “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.” She and her team create thoughtfully designed, human-centered experiences utilizing the philosophy known as intelligent

It’s time to participate in Banned Books Week, today through Oct. 11. But in truth, every day is a good time to let the board members of local libraries, schools and institutions know that censorship is un-American. Just in case you do not know about Banned Books Week, the New York–based studio Thought Matter, known

The past several months have seen many articles published about the Victorian designer and all-round polymath, William Morris. The focus of the conversation has ranged from William Morris and Islamic Art to William Morris and Kitsch to an exhibition in York, The Art of Wallpaper: Morris & Co. What this recent attention on Morris’s diverse