Flowchart vs. process map, what do you choose to use? When it comes to mapping out a project, you’ve got several choices on ...

How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too.

This is the second part of a three-part column by Allen You. The most essential element of any magazine is design. It is everything that is not the mere choice of words. Design is what makes a ...

In a world where concrete is as ubiquitous as air, its environmental toll is impossible to ignore. The production of cement, ...

For Fujianese restaurant in Brooklyn, Nin Hao, Plan Plan riff off of different types of transparency for a materially rich ...

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I never wanted to be a writer. I was an information designer. Becoming a columnist, like so many things in my career, was a bit of a fluke.

When I backed out of my driveway and flattened not just my mailbox, but also my neighbor’s, I knew I had to visit the optometrist. I like going to the eye doctor. Trouble is, he doesn’t like me. It ...

Growing into myself as a writer — and doing it in front of and for all of you — has been one of the great honors of my life.

Donna Phaneuf founded the firm in 1991 and aptly named it Via, a Latin-based word that means “by way of.” On Jan. 1, she ...

If a language can be used to build web scrapers, it definitely needs to provide a graceful data visualization library. --- by dongdong. In the Golang ecosystem, there are not many choices for data ...