Khoi Vinh's Blog, page 26

Bite-sized Bits of Design Criticism

Back in June I hosted a panel at SF Design Week about the importance of criticism in design. I was…

Reimagining New York Architectural Landmarks

Designers who can’t help but want to hypothetically redesign everything they see may enjoy these conceptual renderings from architecture firm…

Are Smartphones, Social Media—and Designers—Ruining Teenagers?

Last week The Atlantic published this amazing feature-length article by San Diego State University professor of psychology Jean M. Twenge.…

Gender Representation in Comic Book Characters

In this report, data visualization designer and journalist Amanda Shendruk examines the naming conventions, types of superpowers, and representation on…

Obama Photographer Pete Souza at The Met

It never occurred to me that I could get so intensely nostalgiac for a time that ended less than a…

Movies Watched, July 2017

Only under extreme duress will I go see a movie in 3D. The picture quality is universally horrid and I…

Reissuing Humanscale, the Classic Human Factors Guide for Designers

This Kickstarter campaign endeavors to reprint a classic designers’ reference from the 1970s: In the golden age of American industrial…

Even If You Have a Real TV, You Might Want a FakeTV

Not every gadget needs to be an amazing technological breakthrough in order to delight. A case in point is the…

Movies Watched, June 2017

Director Patty Jenkins’s “Wonder Woman,” which I saw in theaters, is one of those weirdly great movies—it’s not particularly artful…

Defending Criticism (from Trump)

Poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch wrote this magnificent polemic recently in the Book Review section of The New York…