For the New York Times, I spoke to the people using a tiny device called a Raspberry Shake to tune in to the earth’s vibrations.

In my ghost story, mysterious fingerprints begin to appear on pages from an Epson printer, spurring an investigation into histories of thwarted labor strikes, technological obsolesce, and sheet catchers — women hired hired by printing houses in the late 19th and early 20th.

A devoted corps of users has kept this sparkly but outdated digital world, where magical pets have been reared since 1999, afloat. Recently, droves of pandemic-era nostalgia seekers have joined them.

Transgressive design has long been defined by DIY tactics and political satire. Featuring interviews with the Guerrilla Girls and Jamie Reid, I chart the emergence of a new strategy for solidarity building and collective action.

What happens when algorithms get entangled with desire, and why the best way to keep someone clicking is to keep them guessing…

Through a unique set of circumstances, Popitz slipped through a crack and into the field of commercial arts, learning her craft from the originators of German Modernism before pursuing her own career.

Her tablecloths took a feminized space of decoration and domesticity, and interpreted it not as a site of frivolity, but as one for communication and intellectual stimulation.

Highly systematic and rule-driven with a modernist ethos, architect turned designer Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur takes a deeply personal approach to fashion. I wrote the essay for his latest “anti-look book.”

Through showering her saleswomen with free mink coats, diamond rings, and couture dresses, the irrepressibly charismatic Brownie Wise created a network that ran much like a sorority.

Searching for the women involved with poster-making during Haight Ashbury’s “swinging sixties,” I encountered another picture of that time and its design, as well as what might have been.

London Zoo has been likened to an “architectural Tower of Babel.” Yet how the animals themselves have felt about living inside models of avant-garde architecture is a whole other story.

Cooking Sections make the politics of food visible, whether they’re serving mussels on a beach in California, or interrogating the tenuous labelling of salmon. I spoke to the pair about the ethics of consumption and building alternative futures.

And it’s doing so through seamless, intensely personalized consumer pathways that urge us to binge, and then binge some more…

The “Grandfather of Zines” discusses mag-making, eighties New York, the art collective General Idea, and his love of all things printed matter…