Fast Company

How the skateboard became a ‘perfected design’

The skateboard has had a wild ride. From its DIY beginnings in the 1950s to its counterculture heyday in the ’80s and ’90s to its inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics, skateboarding has been ...
Pratt Institute

Design Historian Sarah A. Lichtman Named Chair of History of Art and Design

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 ...
insider.si.edu

After the Bauhaus, before the Internet a history of graphic design pedagogy edited by Geoff Kaplan

Foreword / Tim Barringer ; A history of graphic design pedagogy, or so they tell me / Geoff Kaplan ; Design pedagogy's traces: notes on evidence and method / Colin Fanning -- From practices to ...
Forbes

And The Award Goes To... The History Of The Costume Design Oscar

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fashion design, costume design, and haute couture stories. The next time we have a presidential election year, in 2028, it will be ...
insider.si.edu

History of interior architecture : furniture, design, and global culture/ Mark Hinchman

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 ...
Vogue

A New Book Spotlights Black Pioneers From Across the History of Design

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.) ...
MIT Technology Review

Why the definition of design might need a change

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, ...