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Diamonds in the Jungle

Caterina Francisca
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The Beauty of a Cat and a…

Katherine Roberts
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It’s Personal

Sandra Nuut
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Phenomenal Beauty

Anne Quito
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Signs of Change

Anne Quito
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Eventually Everything:…

Julie Lasky
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Fly-By Worship: The…

Erin Routson
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Letter From Detroit

Ingrid Norton
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Don’t Leave Me

John Lingan
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On Frozen Pond

Bryn Smith
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Low-Fat Industrial: The…

Matt Shaw
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Design for Girls: Put A…

Alexandra Lange
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An Anatomy of Uncriticism

Alexandra Lange
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A History Of The World In…

Adam Harrison Levy
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Disaster With a D

Adam Harrison Levy
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Digital as a Second Language

Ralph Caplan
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Needing Jobs

Ralph Caplan
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Dancing with the Stars

Lewis Lapham
Massimo Vignelli

1983 Call for Criticism

Massimo Vignelli
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Hotel design in British…

Daniella Ohad Smith
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The Inventor of the Cowboy…

Adam Harrison Levy
New Monobloc

The Most Successful Chair

Amelie Znidaric
Microchip

User Rights: The Customer…

Phil Patton
Tomislav Gotovac

Exhibition

Adam Harrison Levy
Tamarillo

A Dinner, a Liqueur, a Fine…

Adam Harrison Levy
Wood Stacking

The Wood Stacker

Adam Harrison Levy
Williamsburg Bridge Bike Path

Party on the Williamsburg…

Anna Kealey
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High Bridge

Barbara Eldredge
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How Do Committees Invent?

Phil Patton
Ward's Island Bridge

The Bridge to Nowhere

Katya Mezhibovskaya
Spuyten Duyvil Train Station

Spuyten Duyvil Bridge

Derrick Mead
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Saul Leiter: Resurrected

Adam Harrison Levy
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Nails

Adam Harrison Levy
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Aha Moment: Antony Hegarty

Leital Molad
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Guns at MoMA

Barbara Eldredge
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Weeels Social Transit

Amna Siddiqui
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Duane Reade: Your City?…

Katya Mezhibovskaya
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Hands Off Our Houses

Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava
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Uncommon Ground

Alexandra Lange
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Making the Memorial

Maya Lin
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Fun Stuff

Rob Walker
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On Governing Design

Paola Antonelli
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Go Figure

Rob Walker
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Pyramid Scheme

Justin Davidson
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Plastic Man

John Seabrook
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Design Bites

Paola Antonelli
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The Log From the Sea of…

John Steinbeck
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Ricky’s Perennial Pop-Up

Stephanie Jönsson
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Architecture of Ambition

Molly Heintz
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Love & Architecture

Alexandra Lange
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Bassett Jones, Under Our…

Russell Flinchum
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The Average Cinderella

Amelie Znidaric
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Fixing the World

Justin Davidson
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Putting Out Fires in Style

Avinash Rajagopal
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The Glorious Gowanus

Barbara Eldredge
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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Gay Talese
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Seeing Red: Graphic…

Kimberlie Birks
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Earning its Stripes: The…

Kimberlie Birks
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Why Teague Matters

Russell Flinchum
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In Praise of Shadows

Junichiro Tanizaki
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Hiroshima: The Lost…

Adam Harrison Levy
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Thinking About Nothing Much

Akiko Busch
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Dessert Time

Tacey Rosolowski
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Digestive Aids

Zachary Sachs
Robert Irwin

In a Desert of Pure Feeling

Lawrence Weschler
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Fascist Seduction

Steven Heller
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Taking Art to Point Zero,…

Lawrence Weschler
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American Apparel’s…

Anna Kealey
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The Formation of the…

Clement Edson Armi
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Double Standard

Zachary Sachs
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Blue Walls

Avinash Rajagopal
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Somebody Nailed My Dress to…

Randolyn Zinn
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Remembering Saul

Ralph Caplan
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The Plain Beauty of…

Karen Stein
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Sometimes We Do It Right

Ada Louise Huxtable
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Lady Gaga is a Machine for…

Aileen Kwun
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Why Nicolai Ouroussoff Is…

Alexandra Lange
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The Revelation, or advice…

John Thackara
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The High Line: Heightening…

Kimberlie Birks
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Why Has Critique Run Out of…

Bruno Latour
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Music in Zeroes and Ones

Molly Heintz
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Don’t Go in There!:…

Amelie Znidaric
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Advertising Takeover

Saundra Marcel
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Pedicab Wallah

Avinash Rajagopal
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Whatever Happened to Total…

Mark Wigley
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Air Guitar

Dave Hickey
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Celebrating Design

Avinash Rajagopal
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The Schwinn Sting-Ray, The…

Emily Leibin
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The New Park on the Old…

Avinash Rajagopal
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Why There Are No Locks on…

Ralph Caplan
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Seeing

Annie Dillard
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The Glorious Whitewasher

Mark Twain
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Who Are Steve Heller?

Ralph Caplan
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Overalls

James Agee
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The Exile of Satan from…

Alan Rapp
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Blood Types

Angela Riechers
Cross Bronx Expressway

One Mile (The Power Broker)

Robert Caro
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The Things That Matter

Sherry Turkle
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On Criticism

Multiple Authors
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Stumbling Is the Cost of…

Ralph Caplan
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Compulsion: Where Object…

Chappell Ellison
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I Am a Tree

Orhan Pamuk
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Contemporary World…

Susan Yelavich
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A Manifesto for…

Jamer Hunt
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The Look of Metal Today

Alan Rapp
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Considering Wall-E

Chappell Ellison
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Welcome to the Naming…

Angela Riechers
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De-Malling South Street…

Laura Forde
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A Cautious Prometheus?

Bruno Latour
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A Good Argument

Peter Hall
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A New Page

Nicholson Baker
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Japanese Face Masks

Steven Heller
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Excess Disguised as Less

Akiko Busch
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Coyote vs. Acme,…

Ian Frazier
When banks were like cathedrals: Home Savings of America Bank

Design You Can Bank On

Angela Riechers
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The Evolution of the…

Paul Lukas
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Three Complaints About…

Naomi Stead
Near the Saugerties lighthouse

Just Beneath the Surface

Akiko Busch
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Odes to Objects

D-Crit Class of 2010
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Trump, The Logo

John Cantwell
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The Art of Donald McGill

George Orwell
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That’s the Ticket

Angela Riechers
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Simplicity Is Not the Answer

Don Norman
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The Glass Stampede

Justin Davidson
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My Life and Work

Henry Ford
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A Rape In Cyberspace, or…

Julian Dibbell
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What Went Wrong With the…

Dan Nadel
China Central Television’s headquarters

From Mao to Wow!

Kurt Andersen
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Space Case: Star Wars…

Anthony Lane
Shepard Fairey’s Barack Obama poster

Shepard Fairey is Not a…

Steven Heller
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How Much is That Artifact…

Steven Heller
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The Soul of Design

Rick Poynor
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Down with Innovation

Rick Poynor
A Mercury dime, with wing-headed Liberty on the obverse

Can You Spare a (Mercury)…

Phil Patton
The unrenovated High Line, April 2000, New York, NY

The Beauty of a Park

Alexandra Lange
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A Letter to the Dean

Philip Nobel
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On Sheet Music

Jody Rosen
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Ur Jordan

Phil Patton
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Modernist Malice

Andrea Codrington Lippke
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An Uphill Struggle

David Womack
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Robots Like to Do It with…

Mike Neal
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Harley Earl’s…

Russell Flinchum
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Let The Games Begin

Jennifer Kabat
The Hand-Up Project

The Hand Up Project:…

Elizabeth Demaray
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Design Criticism’s…

Alice Twemlow
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Against Interpretation

Susan Sontag
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A Dutch Perspective on Craft

Louise Schouwenberg
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Railway Stations

John Ruskin
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The Lamp of Beauty

John Ruskin
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Die Another Day

Philip Nobel
New York in 2016

Building the (New) New…

Alexandra Lange
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center

A Bad Type Idea Is a Worse…

Frederico Duarte
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The Designibles

Jessica Helfand
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The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler
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Theoretically Challenged

Ralph Caplan
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The Vegetable Peeler

Akiko Busch
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Industrial Design and…

Reyner Banham
Rendering of Citi Field

The (Faux) Old Ball Game

Michael Bierut
The redesigned Guardian, September 12, 2005

The Time for Being Against

Rick Poynor
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Dada-Vu

Steven Heller
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Clip Art

Nicholson Baker