Alinea’s Longtime Designer Reimagines the Coffee Maker
During the pandemic, Martin Kastner, founder of Crucial Detail in Chicago, finally scratched an 11-year-itch and set about redesigning the coffee maker. And, of course, it needed a shower head in it.
Designing for Lions, Tigers, and Bears (Oh My!)
Zoo design is all about trade-offs, understanding human psychology, and appealing to emotion. Food-for-thought on the impact of your next design choice.
Designing for Mistakes: A Fix for Where Social Media Goes Off the Rails
Designers Alexis Lloyd and Matt Boggie discuss how we healthier conversations online. (Among other things, it involves borrowing an idea from Tumblr.0
Good Work Isn’t Cheap: How to Reset Expectations About Creative Value
Artist Jon Burgerman shares how he responds to those who assume creative work is free work, and how we can reset expectations about the value of what we do.
Covid-Influenced Ingenuity: NYC Restaurateur Designs Sidewalk Chalets
Busting through bureaucracy to redesign the restaurant dining experience amid Covid-19.
How to Cultivate a Culture Where Creative Freedom Rules
Repeat after me: Look at how your job had always been done, smash that model to pieces, and rebuild it in better, smarter ways.