Category: essays
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cultural organizing in the mamdani campaign
Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 campaign for Mayor of New York is a groundbreaking mix of organizing, creative work, and constructive politics.
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defining “design for good”
Ask a designer to define design and it becomes philosophical, poetic, grandiose, all-encompassing. It becomes a container for hopes and dreams, an expression of one’s identity, a sales pitch, an academic rabbit hole, maybe even redirection for deep insecurities. But as such, it’s often nebulous, hyperbolic, subjective, sometimes confusing.
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who gets to talk about design?
Design is a big field. It’s many big fields. Not only are there a lot of different types of design, there are vastly different experiences and challenges within each field. There’s graphic design, user experience design, UI design, brand design, service design, game design, experiential design, type design, urban design, landscape design, architecture, interior design,…