Interview: Tim Samuelson and the Intangible of History
When Timothy Samuelson stood in the center of his windowless, crowded studio, surrounded by gorgeous artifacts of the past, I…
Interview: Wild Cards—Artist David Wilson and the Great Lakes Tarot Deck
Fortune favors the bold. Ohio artist David Wilson’s life journey has seen a typical array of ups, downs, and divergent…
Essay: Walking Graceland Cemetery with—and Without—Adam Selzer’s New Book
Near the end of my hourlong walk around Graceland Cemetery the other day, I went past a stone obelisk, maybe…
Review: Hundreds of Clocks Show the Beauty and Absurdity of Time in New Design Museum Exhibit
Wall clocks. Alarm clocks. Wristwatches. Decorative clocks and boring clocks. Glorious gaudy glass clocks. Cuckoo clocks and kooky clocks. Artist…
Review: The Business of Beauty at the Art Institute Displays William Morris’ Genius in Home Textiles and Design
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” English textile…
Review: The Wright Place: Frank Lloyd Wright’s $10,000 Home
Frank Lloyd Wright’s $10,000 Home: History, Design, and Restoration of the Bach House Robert J. Hartnett Master Wings Publishing Despite…
Dialogs: Podcaster/Designer Debbie Millman Talks About Why Design Matters and What We Can Do About It
Debbie Millman has been podcasting since before there were podcasts. She has produced more than 500 interviews over the 16+…
Review: Visualizing and Honoring Black America, the Story W.E.B. Du Bois Told at the 1900 Paris Exposition
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America—The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Edited by Whitney…
Review: Why Chicago Is Chicago, A History of the Chicago Portage, by Benjamin Sells
A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America By Benjamin Sells Northwestern University…
GALLERY: Chicago Auto Show 2021
We couldn’t get enough of the double gloss, pearlescent, almost holographic colors on all the brand new models at this…
Big Wheel, Keep On Turning–Chicago Auto Show Returns to McCormick Place for Slightly Altered 2021 Show
The Chicago Auto Show was one of the last events we covered in 2020 before the pandemic hit, and the…
Book Review: Push Butt, Receive Bacon, Hand Dryers, by Samuel Ryde
Hand Dryers By Samuel Ryde Unicorn Publishing Group Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Books In the appropriately senseless…
