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Articles by Mark Wigley
Music in Zeroes and Ones
Molly Heintz
Don’t Go in There!:…
Amelie Znidaric
Advertising Takeover
Saundra Marcel
Pedicab Wallah
Avinash Rajagopal
Whatever Happened to Total…
Mark Wigley
Air Guitar
Dave Hickey
Celebrating Design
Avinash Rajagopal
The Schwinn Sting-Ray, The…
Emily Leibin
The New Park on the Old…
Avinash Rajagopal
Why There Are No Locks on…
Ralph Caplan
Seeing
Annie Dillard
The Glorious Whitewasher
Mark Twain
Who Are Steve Heller?
Ralph Caplan
Overalls
James Agee
The Exile of Satan from…
Alan Rapp
Blood Types
Angela Riechers
One Mile (The Power Broker)
Robert Caro
The Things That Matter
Sherry Turkle
On Criticism
Multiple Authors
Stumbling Is the Cost of…
Ralph Caplan
Compulsion: Where Object…
Chappell Ellison
I Am a Tree
Orhan Pamuk
Contemporary World…
Susan Yelavich
A Manifesto for…
Jamer Hunt
The Look of Metal Today
Alan Rapp
Considering Wall-E
Chappell Ellison
Welcome to the Naming…
Angela Riechers
De-Malling South Street…
Laura Forde
A Cautious Prometheus?
Bruno Latour
A Good Argument
Peter Hall
A New Page
Nicholson Baker
Japanese Face Masks
Steven Heller
Excess Disguised as Less
Akiko Busch
Coyote vs. Acme,…
Ian Frazier
Design You Can Bank On
Angela Riechers
The Evolution of the…
Paul Lukas
Three Complaints About…
Naomi Stead
Just Beneath the Surface
Akiko Busch
Odes to Objects
D-Crit Class of 2010
Trump, The Logo
John Cantwell
The Art of Donald McGill
George Orwell
That’s the Ticket
Angela Riechers
Simplicity Is Not the Answer
Don Norman
The Glass Stampede
Justin Davidson
My Life and Work
Henry Ford
A Rape In Cyberspace, or…
Julian Dibbell
What Went Wrong With the…
Dan Nadel
From Mao to Wow!
Kurt Andersen
Space Case: Star Wars…
Anthony Lane
Shepard Fairey is Not a…
Steven Heller
How Much is That Artifact…
Steven Heller
The Soul of Design
Rick Poynor
Down with Innovation
Rick Poynor
Can You Spare a (Mercury)…
Phil Patton
The Beauty of a Park
Alexandra Lange
A Letter to the Dean
Philip Nobel
On Sheet Music
Jody Rosen
Ur Jordan
Phil Patton
Modernist Malice
Andrea Codrington
An Uphill Struggle
David Womack
Robots Like to Do It with…
Mike Neal
Harley Earl’s…
Russell Flinchum
Let The Games Begin
Jennifer Kabat
The Hand Up Project:…
Elizabeth Demaray
Design Criticism’s…
Alice Twemlow
Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag
A Dutch Perspective on Craft
Louise Schouwenberg
Railway Stations
John Ruskin
The Lamp of Beauty
John Ruskin
Die Another Day
Philip Nobel
Building the (New) New…
Alexandra Lange
A Bad Type Idea Is a Worse…
Frederico Duarte
The Designibles
Jessica Helfand
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
Theoretically Challenged
Ralph Caplan
The Vegetable Peeler
Akiko Busch
Industrial Design and…
Reyner Banham
The (Faux) Old Ball Game
Michael Bierut
The Time for Being Against
Rick Poynor
Dada-Vu
Steven Heller
Clip Art
Nicholson Baker