Tag: Design
What can we learn from the way graduates are decorating their...
Sheila Bock, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
For college students across the country, commencement formally marks the transition from student to graduate. Per tradition, most...
Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky
Sean Weiss, City College of New York
A decade after the global economic collapse, urban development is booming.
This is good news for architects. Indeed,...
Remembering America’s lost buildings
Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University; Carol Willis, Columbia University; Daniel Bluestone, Boston University; Kerry Traynor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York,...
For restaurants looking to boost profits, it’s often about everything but...
Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College
Staying one step ahead of the competition in the hypercompetitive restaurant industry requires more than simply tinkering with...
How Facebook – the Wal-Mart of the internet – dismantled online...
Jessa Lingel, University of Pennsylvania
Before the internet, people interested in body modification – not just tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, but those drawn...
Can technology help fashion clean up its act?
Suzanne Mancini, Rhode Island School of Design
Chemical waste, mass production and consumerism are all byproducts of an industrialized global economy.
The fashion industry is no...
2015, the year that was: arts and culture
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
With the New Year approaching, we highlight the top arts and culture stories from 2015.
Over the past year, there was no...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
