Last year Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne invited me to write a forward to their brand new book about advertising art direction and design. So I...

Last week I attended the World Economic Forum’s second Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai. There were over 700 experts and thought leaders from...

Sitting on my desk in New York are prototypes of two devices that make contaminated water safe to drink. For flood victims or people in...

In 1963, Theodore Levitt wrote a prescient essay in the Harvard Business Review called “Creativity is Not Enough. In short, he outlines the real conditions...

I just made my final visit to the Virgin Megastore. It closes next week. A clerk was stacking the remaining books on the floor. I told...

The legendary adman David Ogilvy told his clients that, “Promise, large promise, is the soul of advertising.” But in a faltering economy where trust is...

Davos, Switzerland: What is good design? It’s a seemingly simple question, that’s surprisingly difficult to answer. The more you think about it, the more...

This time last year Creativity magazine had chosen to honor the iPhone rather than an ad campaign. It marked the ad industry’s arrival at a tipping-point....

There is an edifying piece in the New York Times, today. The canary, or the chickadee, is singing in the mine. When are we going to really...

A few weeks ago, on a Facebook status no less, I praised Slumdog Millionaire. Several of my friends from India were quite surprised at my...

Do you think designers have a responsibility towards shaping our society’s conscience? How can design compel disaffected audiences to take action on social issues? How...

The Los Angeles Times has an uncommonly thorough story on a student-faculty alliance to address design and sustainability on the entire campus of Art Center in Pasadena. Worth...

Here’s a post from Manny Garcia, one of the great students from The Aspen Design Challenge. Seems he learned some stuff. Which is good, as the...