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Paola Antonelli has a litmus test for worthy design. People often ask the Museum of Modern Art’s senior curator of architecture and design how she decides what to add to the museum’s collection, and she gives them simple instructions: “Close your eyes and think, If this object did not exist, would the world miss out?” she says. #designhistory #designbusines #MoMA #feedly fastcompany.com/91268843/moma-

Fast Company · MoMA’s Paola Antonelli on the groundbreaking designs that have changed humanityFrom Tamagotchi trinkets to Monobloc chairs, objects can create their own cultural inflection points.

I can't believe Photoshop is celebrating 35! When I first got into my undergraduate program in #GraphicDesign, one would go to design school to work on Print material. Photoshop was a "niche" software: you would edit your photos on it and then import them into other software (Freehand, PageMaker, CorelDraw, QuarkXPress). Then the web boom came, and you could not create websites without it! Happy birthday, Photoshop! #design #designhistory #photography #feedly dpreview.com/news/5807387805/a

Held in partnership with Mattel, the vibrant pink showcase at London’s Design Museum features over 180 remarkable dolls, including rare, unique, and innovative examples from the Barbie universe. Visitors will encounter significant dolls, from the first Barbie to ‘move’ to the first Barbie to ‘talk,’ along with many others that have left a mark on culture over the decades. #DesignHistory

How many female graphic designers can you name?

The only ones my memory can conjure are Ellen Lupton or Paula Scher, and that's only because they are so influential you can't ignore them.

In this unfortunately, short read, Briar Levit exposes some much less-known names, biographies, and work of trailblazing typesetters, propaganda poster creators, and other graphic wizards.

Baseline Shift, Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History