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h1The Past, Present and Future of Design with Lee Moreau, DB|BD Season 12 Finale
h2The most disruptive thing a brand can do is be human
h2How production designer Grace Yun turned domestic spaces into horror in ‘Hereditary’ and heartache in ‘Past Lives’
h2Patrick Whitney on Designing for What’s Next | Design As Season Finale
h2Redesigning the Spice Trade: Talking Turmeric and Tariffs with Diaspora Co.’s Sana Javeri Kadri
h2The Futures Archive S2E10: The Automatic Door
h2Ethan Hawke
h2The Wizards of AI are sad and lonely men
h3No mandates, only opportunities: IMB’s Phil Gilbert on rethinking change
h3What happens when the social safety net disappears?
h3The compound interest of design: what not to build
h3A new chapter of human ingenuity in the age of AI
h1Books, films, and more: Design Observer covers the long form
h3How can I design at a time like this?
h3Dancing with AI: how next-gen game designers are taking the lead
h3Design Criticism
h3Amplifying Accessibility and Abolishing Ableism: Designing to Embolden Black Disability Visual Culture

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Lee Moreau|Audio

# The Past, Present and Future of Design with Lee Moreau, DB|BD Season 12 Finale

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Kim Devall|Essays

## The most disruptive thing a brand can do is be human

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## How production designer Grace Yun turned domestic spaces into horror in ‘Hereditary’ and heartache in ‘Past Lives’

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“Arts and crafts is the only creative industry where developing countries have a leading position in the global market.” What we often call kitsch may, in fact, be cultural endurance.

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Ellen McGirt|Profiles

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“It started as a simple idea — this nurse brings cake to weird people, and they die — and then it became something else entirely, this kind of dark, psychological, surreal journey.” I’m speaking via video call with Rob James and Bruce McClure, the filmmakers behind District Nurse, an independent horror feature first released in … Continued

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An adman recounts the ghostly encounter that’s haunted him for half a century.

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Lee Moreau

## Patrick Whitney on Designing for What’s Next | Design As Season Finale

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Sloan Leo

## The Futures Archive S2E10: The Automatic Door

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Lee Moreau|Critique

## The Wizards of AI are sad and lonely men

Lee Moreau on AI, the loneliness of power, the danger of wizards, and the designer’s role in keeping hope alive.

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# Books, films, and more: Design Observer covers the long form

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### How can I design at a time like this?

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### Dancing with AI: how next-gen game designers are taking the lead

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### Amplifying Accessibility and Abolishing Ableism: Designing to Embolden Black Disability Visual Culture

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