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In the spring of 1970, more than 20 million Americans poured into the streets for the first Earth Day. It was a tidal wave of collective energy that reshaped policy, created the EPA, and ignited a global conversation around the environment. Fifty-five years later, we find ourselves at another inflection point. The science is irrefutable, […]

“AI slop” is AI-generated content—text, video, photos, ads—that is poorly executed, generally annoying, notably inauthentic, and overly abundant. I’ve started receiving a lot of emails from services wanting me to hire them to promote The Fabric of Civilization. Some of these emails seem to represent real people who are using AI to write. Others are

We’re not saving these signs just because we think they’re cool, we’re saving these signs because they mean something to us, and they mean something to us as New Yorkers, and they mean something to our community. David Barnett, co-founder of Noble Signs and the New York Sign Museum In the sign painting community, a

If there’s any common ground between a revolutionary Communist and a Capitalist, one is obvious: tobacco. Whether red, or red, white and blue, everyone smokes—or used to. Tobacco and alcohol are the staples of every country and people on earth (add drugs to that and you have a troika of earthly delights). Cigarette brands are

Rebranding is one of the biggest decisions a nonprofit can make, yet many organizations wait for years before acting. Leaders sense their brand isn’t pulling its weight, but they often put it off until a crisis hits. Other times, leadership is ready to move, but staff and partners aren’t on the same page. In either

The credit system in the United States has long leaned away from the very people it was designed to serve. For more than 100 million working Americans, fair credit remains out of reach, locked behind outdated metrics that punish past missteps instead of recognizing potential. Now, with a new name and brand identity crafted by

Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell organized Do Not Meddle With It!! Print Censorship in 19th-Century Paris for the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. On view through Dec. 7, it’s a timely exhibition with work from the past that informs the present. Drawn primarily from the McNay’s collection of works on paper, the exhibition features critical images

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I later learned that it had been a supply closet, rapidly converted for the arrival of the new junior copywriter. It didn’t matter. I was so proud of that first office with my actual name on a plate outside the door — drab, windowless, narrow, with fluorescent overhead lighting that revealed every worn patch of

This week on the DesignThinkers podcast, host Nicola Hamilton is joined by Debra Bishop, an award-winning creative director and one of the most influential voices in editorial design. Over the past four decades, Bishop has shaped the look and feel of some of publishing’s most iconic titles—from her early days at Rolling Stone, to launching