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The Invention of Design

A Twentieth-Century History
  • Maggie Gram
2025
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  • Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic
    Book Review

    The Perils of ‘Design Thinking’

    How did the concept become the solution to society’s most deeply entrenched problems?
    by Celine Nguyen via The Atlantic on June 24, 2025
  • Book cover for The Invention of Design by Maggie Gram features a phone cord snaking around text.
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    Irrelevant at Best, or Else Complicit

    The state of design in 1970.
    by Maggie Gram via HNN on June 3, 2025
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