Art

When the vintage craft of making lampshades by hand meets the social-media-fueled modern age, you get the glorious world that is Ace of Shades. From the hands of a former costume designer who worked on productions for television, film and Broadway, Ace of Shades is a one-woman show based in Brooklyn. With little else to […]

My Butter is Better, the most recent installment of Stefan Sagmeister’s touring art exhibitions, is now on view at Galería Hilario Galguera Madrid through October—and tomorrow, a version takes up residence at the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Mexico. The show is a selection of more than 20 paintings made from 2022–2025 that combine

We all love a good sandwich, and Italian subs are next level. When a neighborhood sandwich shop manages to feel both timeless and fresh, it’s rarely by accident. For Massi’s—a just-opened Italian spot in Astoria, Queens—the recipe mixes scratch-made food, family pride, and a design system crafted with equal conviction. The shop, known for its

Hosts Doreeen Lorenzo and Michael Baker speak with Paul Propster, a strategic storyteller best known for his transformative work as Chief Story Architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He shares how narrative thinking, when done right, can turn complex ideas into powerful, human-centered stories that win support, inspire action, and drive change. It’s no

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. Greg Beauchamp is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and the founder/CEO of creative agency and production studio,

“Civilization is an occasional broadsheet newspaper founded in New York in 2018 by Richard Turley, Lucas Mascatello and Mia Kerin,” reads an email from Turley. “What began as a personal project about living in the city gradually morphed into an art project probing how language (messy, overheard, interrupted, charged) is used and experienced in public

I am writing this from the cottage in Mill Valley, California, where I wrote the first draft of Motherland back in the days before Covid. We found it on VRBO, I think, and it looked beautiful, nestled on the mid-ledge of Tamalpais; we first stayed here when we discovered how much we loved Mill Valley,

This week on the DesignThinkers podcast, Nicola Hamilton is joined by Pablo Martin, creative director at MUBI. A legend in editorial design, Martin has spent four decades shaping the visual language of publications and brands across Spain, the UK, and beyond. His journey has taken him from a work placement with Massimo Vignelli to co-founding

On this episode, Doreen Lorenzo and Michael Baker speak with Paul Propster, a strategic storyteller best known for his transformative work as Chief Story Architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He shares how narrative thinking, when done right, can turn complex ideas into powerful, human-centered stories that win support, inspire action, and drive change.

With AI, everyone can be Samantha Stevens from the 1960s sitcom “Bewitched,” who—if she so desired—could tranform a movie into a book cover with the twitch of her nose. Coincidentally, that is virtually what the designer Matt Stevens (no relation to Samantha) does without resorting to a brew of prompts and codes. Using talent and