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June 2025: Junction Making, Camp Life, and a new exhibition on mid-century modernism

Plus new books in the studio about speculative design, graphic design education, Mexican architecture, and more!

Jun 2

Eventually Everything Connects: Andrew Satake Blauvelt on mid-century modernism and his ongoing critical project

A new exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum expands our definitions of mid-century modern design.

May 27

Hans Ulrich Obrist is just trying to make connections

The famed curator closes our Spring season with a wide-ranging conversation about curation, conversation, and why the art world is still his home base.

May 14

May 2025: Virtual Architecture, Graffiti in the City, a fashion designer's home garden

Plus, imagining a Scratching the Surface Eras tour!

May 5

Sarah Ichioka on moving from sustainability towards regeneration

Her book, Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, co-authored with Michael Pawlyn, explores the intersection of systems change and the…

Apr 30

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Bonus Interviews

Eventually Everything Connects: Andrew Satake Blauvelt on mid-century modernism and his ongoing critical project

A new exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum expands our definitions of mid-century modern design.

May 27

How Ian Lynam wrote a history of Japanese Graphic Design

A few questions for the designer and writer about his monumental new book on Japanese graphic design history.

Mar 20

How Aggie Toppins is Thinking Through Graphic Design History

A conversation about the designer-educator's new book that thinks about how historical references can influence contemporary practices.

Feb 20

Jeffrey Schnapp on what we can still learn from Bruno Munari

With the new English translation Munari's 1977 book Fantasy, we talk to the fellow polymath about process, creativity, and imagination.

Jan 16

The Monthly Dispatch

June 2025: Junction Making, Camp Life, and a new exhibition on mid-century modernism

Plus new books in the studio about speculative design, graphic design education, Mexican architecture, and more!

Jun 2

May 2025: Virtual Architecture, Graffiti in the City, a fashion designer's home garden

Plus, imagining a Scratching the Surface Eras tour!

May 5

April 2025: Design Fiction, Against Platforms, an Avant-Garde catalog for Standard Cables

Plus an experimental residential prototype and why we need to imagine new futures.

Apr 7

March 2025: Expanded practices, thinking through design history, and loud paper

Conversations with Formafantasma and Liz Diller, Mimi Zeiger's Loud Paper, and more.

Mar 3

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