Do the Green Thing might be 10 years old, but the issues it tackles, including corporate social responsibility, are very much the hot topics of today. Co-founder Naresh Ramchandani reflects on how commercial creativity can put something good into the world.
The Eight and a Half studio founder tackles the graphics of American resistance from Benjamin Franklin to the Vietnam War and draws a few lessons on how America’s darkest moments spark some of its greatest design.
French-Senegalese photographer Delphine Diallo discusses how spontaneity and waitressing made her a better photographer, the financial model that allows her to balance prestige and personal projects, and how she has made the most of her chance encounters.
François Chambard, the founder of design studio UM Project, explains how his industrial furniture designs balance vintage obsessions with high tech futurism.
The NBA redesign business is booming and Rodney Richardson, founder of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based RARE Design, has played an outsized role in the frenzy. How did a regular guy from Mississippi leading a seven-person team come to have such an impact on the NBA?
“We can choose not to participate in the consumption and production of [certain] brands and their products. I still believe that the choice of not participating is a kind of activism.”
