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May 2025

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.
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 2025: Virtual Architecture, Graffiti in the City, a fashion designer's home garden
Plus, imagining a Scratching the Surface Eras tour!

April 2025

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…
Matt Owens wants to bridge the gap between design education and practice
His new book, A Visible Distance, is part memoir, part handbook for working in design today.
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.
Space Popular’s Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg on moving between virtual and physical spaces
The design duo talks about virtual reality, the role of media in architecture, and more.

March 2025

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.
Julian Bleecker wants us to imagine harder
A conversation about design fiction, imagination, and possible futures.
Mike Pepi is against platforms
The critic and technologist on his new book about the ideology of Silicon Valley and the intersection of culture and technology.
March 2025: Expanded practices, thinking through design history, and loud paper
Conversations with Formafantasma and Liz Diller, Mimi Zeiger's Loud Paper, and more.
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