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“History Isn’t Just Remembered. It’s Experienced,” reads a pop-up on the Tenderloin Museum’s website.

Over the last 11 years, the Tenderloin Museum — located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood — has become characterized for its unique, community-centered public programming and historically-inspired arts programs.

The Tenderloin houses the richest h...


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It has never made sense to me, why a brand wouldn’t opt for custom type. Working in branding agencies all over London for a lot of my career, I used to sit on the London Tube browsing the series of ads above commuters’ heads. All ads had the same formula: tiny logo in the corner, tick; stock photography, tick. But 50% of the communication — the heavy lifting on messaging — wa...


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Kenya Hara (原 研哉), the Japanese graphic designer, curator, and writer, has built an exceptional body of work based on his observations on the power of design.

Unlike art, which is an individual expression, design must be done together, and for each other, in part by discovering a question that hasn’t yet been asked. “The essence of design lies in the process of disc...


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Last week, John Ball wrote for Design Observer about his experience designing a poster series for the Smithsonian about one of America’s most contested subjects: immigration...


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Encontrar tu propia voz toma más tiempo que hacerse viral, pero merece la pena, afirma el diseñador Guillermo Flores Pacheco.

Guillermo Flores Pacheco tiene un estilo de ilustración inconfundible: colores vivos, aves, plantas exuberantes y personajes surreales. Es un estilo que le ha permitido ...


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