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Posted inBooks, Design, Nonfiction, Story

The Powerful Decide

by Longreads September 24, 2020October 19, 2022

What makes good or bad design happen anywhere depends on who has the most power.

Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Design, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Decline and Not-Quite-Instagrammable Fall of a Design Startup

by benhuberman February 27, 2020October 19, 2022

When an interior-design startup collapses, no filter can hide the ugly truth.

Posted inBooks, Design, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona

by Longreads February 5, 2020December 16, 2022

To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200.

Posted inBusiness, Design, Highlight, Quotes

Style Ain’t Cheap, aka That Stuffed Coyote Costs Extra

by michelleweber August 15, 2018October 19, 2022

Going to a hotel to have a place to sleep is for suckers: it’s influencing or bust.

An older white man in a black leather jacket and black hat sits on a chair in front of a purple wall. On the floor next to him is a white plastic bag that says "thank you" and has a smiley face on it.
Posted inDesign, Highlight, History, Quotes, Science & Nature

I Want to Say One Word to You. Just One Word.

by michelleweber August 14, 2018October 19, 2022

“Plastics.”

Posted inCulture, Design, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

How Brooklyn Lost Itself

by Aaron Gilbreath July 6, 2018October 19, 2022

On the way from the old Brooklyn to the new branded, post-industrial Brooklyn, the city got lost.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Design, Essays & Criticism, Quotes

Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa.

by michelleweber April 18, 2018October 19, 2022

What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Design, Quotes

Immature Architects Built the Attention Economy

by Catherine Cusick October 10, 2017October 19, 2022

The creators of addictive smartphone technology admit they were too immature to consider the downsides of persuasive design.

Posted inDesign, Longreads News

Art Director Kjell Reigstad on How We Refined Longreads’ Typography and Logo

by kjellreigstad September 25, 2017October 19, 2022

How our designer made Longreads even more readable.

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