Great design is a never-ending journey of discovery -- for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer David Carson walks through a gorgeous (and often quite funny) slide deck of his work and...

Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a Major League Baseball team -- every little movement gets picked over by the critics, says Mary Norris, who has played the position for more than thirty years. In that time,...

Meet Franeoise Mouly, The New Yorker's art director. For the past 24 years, she's helped decide what appears on the magazine's famous cover, from the black-on-black depiction of the Twin Towers the week after 9/11 to a recent,...

Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design (including ... inflatable monkeys?).

In a timely talk, cultural critic Virginia Postrel muses on the true meaning, and the powerful uses, of glamour -- which she defines as any calculated, carefully polished image designed to impress and persuade.

So we’ve learned a lot of strategies to fight off failure. But we could be doing all this right and still fail if we straight-up run out of money.



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The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" Bob Mankoff...

Germans are avid newspaper readers, and the traveler will soon become familiar with the major ones. Unlike other European countries, there are only four major national newspapers. Learn about each one, including what each covers. If your...

STORIES BEYOND THE ORDINARY celebrates the amazing heroes featured in The Red Bulletin’s (RED BULL) inaugural Heroes of the Year issue. At this exclusive event hosted by Journalist Bonnie...

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