Allan Chochinov

On the occasion of the U.S. launch of his new book, John talks candidly about putting together one of the most optimistic guidebooks for the future

An Interview with Jessica Helfand on the upcoming Design Observer Taste Conference

For her Masters Thesis at the SVA MFA Products of Design program in New York City, Natsuki Hayashi undertook a year-long pursuit to investigate how design could respond and contribute to the increasing legalization of assisted suicide in the United States. In the conversation below, she talks to Allan Chochinov,

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Tim Dubitsky has just prototyped “hood.e”, a super-cozy solution to bringing music to your ears without blocking everything else out. The product has a great genesis: Tim originally created the design as a present for his nephew--who walks a dangerous route to school crossing busy thoroughfares--and…

Rob’s new book is perfect for designers, design students, and anyone who wants to change their point of view.

Every May, WantedDesign presents a unique program, bringing a group of students from international design schools together to participate in the Design Schools Workshop. Conceived as a collaborative activity rather than a competition, teams are composed of students from different schools and backgrounds. This year, the workshop

A Review of “User Friendly,” the new book by Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant

It would hard to imagine a more urgent time to have a book debut into the world whose subject was “scale and complex systems.” Neither the Covid-19 pandemic nor the racial justice reckoning was the raison d’être for Jamer Hunt’s outstanding and necessary new book of course, Not to Scale: How the Small Becomes Large, the Large Becomes Unthinkable, and the Unthinkable Becomes Possible, but they provide some pretty extraordinary surface area onto which his ideas will land as you read it, and as the

Debbie Millman’s new anthology, “Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People” is out right now. And wow, was it ever worth the wait.