LOS ANGELES - 1990: A view of 11 Oscars statues lined up next to each other in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Santi Visalli/Getty Images) The next time we have a presidential election year ...

Sometimes I think the history of graphic design is a history of finding new terms to define graphic design. In the 100 years or so since the term was first coined, designers have been looking for an ...

The 19th-century department store and its successor, the modern mall, have continually evolved to attract and keep consumer attention for decades. Critic Alexandra Lange and Cooper Hewitt curator ...

This prestigious master’s degree program, which Parsons offers in conjunction with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, brings an object-focused, practice-based approach to the study of ...

Following a competitive search, Sarah A. Lichtman has been named chair of the Department of History of Art and Design in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (SLAS). A design historian and educator ...

When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again. It was drawing, or disegno, as deployed in the making of Italian buildings during the Renaissance, ...

As the author Michael Crichton once said: "If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree." So read on, and either familiarise or ...

Revised edition of "History of furniture : a global view" - published 2009. (from back cover). In today's globalized world, every aspect of our lives is affected by global interconnectedness from what ...

In the opening paragraphs of the British design writer and editor Charlene Prempeh’s new book, she recalls a conversation she had in the late summer of 2020. (A conversation via Zoom, of course.) ...

Pages from ‘Graphic Stamps,’ published by Unit Editions (all images courtesy Unit Editions) (click to enlarge) Typically measuring no larger than one square-inch, postage stamps may not serve as the ...

It’s easy, for me at least, to be cynical about the state of design. Our visual environment can feel bland, everything from brands to buildings homogenized around similar styles. The ever-impending AI ...