Report on Roudha Center, a proposal for a one-stop hub for Qatari women to learn the nuts and bolts of launching a business

The final report from a symposium held in Connecticut, October 17–19, 2010, where 13 educators from a variety of design and business programs discussed the challenges and objectives of social-change initiatives within their schools and universities.

In a gilded age of adaptations: films, TV series, theatrical productions, H. P. Lovecraft’s short novel At the Mountains of Madness, is re-envisioned for a new generation.

On Places, photographer Frank Schirrmeister wanders at dawn with a large format camera through the empty streets of Berlin.

Mark Lamster reviews Irma Boom's book, Irma Boom — Biography in Books.

For the Popes of culture and media, who met last week for the third Avignon Forum, a shallow cultural scanning is a reprehensible downside of “culture for everyone.”

A new blog on architecture, design, art, new york, books, and sport by Mark Lamster.

A new blog on architecture, design, art, new york, books and sport by Mark Lamster.

English designer Vaughan Oliver met Adrian Shaughnessy to show him preliminary work on a deluxe Pixies box set called Minotaur.

Is BIG's 8 House just another version of the 'burbs?

Is BIG's 8 House just another version of the 'burbs?

On Places, writer Millay Hyatt treks the 100-mile trail of the former Berlin Wall, and observes the complicated merging of east and west, past and present.

We are delighted to introduce our newest channel: Observers Room — and new blogs by Mark Lamster, Alexandra Lange, Rick Poynor, John Thackara, and OBlog, a blog by the editors of Design Observer.

Accidental Mysteries, a weekly cabinet of curiosities curated by John Foster, highlights images of design, art, architecture and ephemera brought to light by the magic of the digital age.

We are delighted to introduce our newest channel: Observers Room — and new blogs by Mark Lamster, Alexandra Lange, Rick Poynor, John Thackara, and OBlog, a blog by the editors of Design Observer.