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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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Copywriter Rob Mitchell on why Airbnb doesn't need a brand story
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The Ugliest Thing I Love: David OReilly critiques the worth of design magazines
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2016
Seymour Chwast on wit in creative practice
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2009
2009 Review: Tao Lin
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2017
Michael Bierut: “The differences between mass culture and elite culture are getting less meaningful”
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2026
The future belongs to the creative generalists
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2014
A few lessons learned from Daniel Clowes' Art School Confidential
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2019
David Méndez Alonso on the benefits of being an art director and not a designer
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2019
Benjamin Muzzin on how digital art needs to be “shaken up badly”
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2011
David Foster Wallace: Federer as Religious Experience
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2016
Somesuch publishes its first print compendium of essays and short fiction
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2022
Why making good work is no longer enough
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2015
Nice: Isy Suttie on a word she’s used “too many times”
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2019
Studio Lowrie's design of essays on the built environment is playful, serious and intellectual