The Powerful Decide By Longreads Feature What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.
The Decline and Not-Quite-Instagrammable Fall of a Design Startup By Ben Huberman Highlight When an interior-design startup collapses, no filter can hide the ugly truth.
The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona By Longreads Feature To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200.
Style Ain’t Cheap, aka That Stuffed Coyote Costs Extra By Michelle Weber Highlight Going to a hotel to have a place to sleep is for suckers: it’s influencing or bust.
How Brooklyn Lost Itself By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight On the way from the old Brooklyn to the new branded, post-industrial Brooklyn, the city got lost.
Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa. By Michelle Weber Highlight What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.
Move Slow and Break Less By Catherine Cusick Highlight Mike Monteiro thinks more designers should refuse to move fast and break things.
Unreal Estate: A Reading List About Our Shifting Vision of Home By Ben Huberman Reading List In an age of economic and political instability, what do the spaces we dwell in say about us?
The Nigerian, Feminist Designer who Flouts Convention By Danielle Jackson Highlight Building a fashion empire in a country that’s still conservative about sexuality and female agency.
Immature Architects Built the Attention Economy By Catherine Cusick Highlight The creators of addictive smartphone technology admit they were too immature to consider the downsides of persuasive design.
Art Director Kjell Reigstad on How We Refined Longreads’ Typography and Logo By Kjell Reigstad Commentary How our designer made Longreads even more readable.
