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The world isn’t perfect, and neither is the design industry. Our op-eds give a realistic look at areas where the industry could improve, from critiquing specific designs to looking at how design can address (and hopefully help reverse) historical mistakes.

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Citizenship, Now More Than Ever

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Design Expert’s 10 Coffee Table Book Recommendations

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Howard Chaykin Comics: Unpretentious, Unadulterated Fun

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When Progress Propagates Like Yeast

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The Rebel ‘B’

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Retype’s Modern Interpretation of François Guyot’s Type

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Weekend Heller: Print Goes Unprint

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Weekend Heller: AIGA’s Ink on Paper

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Weekend Heller: A Bad Call for Design Freedom

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Can Commercial Art Ever Be “Art”?

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Weekend Heller: Research, Then Write

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PRINT Magazine Spring 2017 – The Hollywood Issue: San Francisco

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A Printed Magazine About Printed Design

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On Disruption and Complacency in Design Today

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