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Urban farming is a cool design topic these days – but if we’re to make a serious impact on the global food system, we need to show meaningful solidarity with its victims in distant places, too.

Amelia Lacy: Gene and Jackie Lacy, Indianapolis-based graphic designers and illustrators

Observatory from Design Observer | 16 May 2012, 11:58 am

Gene and Jackie Lacy, Indianapolis-based graphic designers and illustrators practicing from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Rick Poynor: The Strange Afterlife of Common Objects

Observatory from Design Observer | 15 May 2012, 8:15 pm

In lstanbul shops like The Works: “Objects of Desire,” the novelist Orhan Pamuk found the artifacts for his newly opened Museum of Innocence.

Mark Lamster: The War Against Sixties Architecture

Observatory from Design Observer | 15 May 2012, 6:47 pm

An unbridled assault on architecture of the 1960s continutes.

Rob Walker: Making an e-collection, and what it taught me.

Observatory from Design Observer | 15 May 2012, 1:47 am

Learning to manage the disconcerting durability of digital objects.

The Editors: A Mother’s Day Celebration: Designers with their Moms

Observatory from Design Observer | 13 May 2012, 2:17 pm

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world," wrote James Joyce, "a mother's love is not." Herewith, a Mother's Day celebration of designers and their mothers.

Alexandra Lange: The Mother of Us All (architecture critics, that is)

Observatory from Design Observer | 11 May 2012, 4:41 pm

Reyner Banham on Esther McCoy: "She speaks as she finds, with sympathy and honesty, and relevantly to the matter at hand." Could there be a better definition of the role of the critic?

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