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Louis VuittonNadia Plesner: My illustration Simple Living is an idea inspired by the media’s constant cover of completely meaningless things. My thought was: Since doing ...

CoolspottersCoolspotters is a well-designed web site that lets users connect brands/products to celebrities from their paparazzi photos to their appearances on screen. And of ...

Think Like a DandelionCory Doctorow: Dandelions and artists have a lot in common in the age of the Internet. This is, of course, the age of unlimited, zero-marginal-cost copying. If you blow ...

Stop Designing ProductsPeter Merholz: When you start with the idea of making a thing, you’re artificially limiting what you can deliver. The reason that many of these exemplar’s ...

Gin, Television, and Social SurplusClay Shirky: If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would’ve come off the whole ...

Desire’s DesignDavid Barringer: The exchange might describe the dilemma of any representative hominid over the last 13,000 years of our self-conscious existence. We have our primitive ...

Punk CapitalismMatt Mason’s The Pirate’s Dilemma: Today it is the driving force behind a new generation of D.I.Y. entrepreneurs who are raising hell once again. Disruptive ...

Underground MainstreamDesign Observer: Advertising has been a favored target of social critics. In the 1930s, Ballyhoo, a popular newsstand humor magazine, and the prototype for MAD magazine, ...

Design is DeadPhilippe Starck: I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. Everything I designed was unnecessary. Design, structurally seen, is absolutely void of ...

Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

- William Drenttel