Justin McGuirk

Design Museum

Justin McGuirk is chief curator at the Design Museum in London.

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When news broke that Jony Ive would leave Apple, where he served as the company’s design guru for 30 years, the company’s share price dropped by $9 billion.

Will Apple be less shiny without designer Jony Ive?

When news broke that Jony Ive would leave Apple, where he served as the company’s design guru for 30 years, the company’s share price dropped by $9 billion.

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Easy Rider motorcycle at the Design Museum Photo by Luke Hayes From the drug-fueled 1960s style of the hippies to the techno-Utopian visions of Silicon Valley's founders,…

California: Designing Freedom

Easy Rider motorcycle at the Design Museum Photo by Luke Hayes From the drug-fueled 1960s style of the hippies to the techno-Utopian visions of Silicon Valley's founders,…

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In London, a new museum exhibition depicts California as a place where hackers and hippies came together to design the future of personal liberation.

California design: The View from London

In London, a new museum exhibition depicts California as a place where hackers and hippies came together to design the future of personal liberation.

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James Steyer is taking on Mark Zuckerberg and other tech barons and he wants to empower the rest of us to do the same.

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Forget sourdough bread and rollerskating. Letter writing is one of the latest trends to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In Huntington Beach, a debate is brewing over the construction of a desalination plant, which would convert seawater to drinkable water. The process is extensive and expensive.

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California has around 21,000 licensed architects, and 300 of them are Black. SoCalNOMA hopes to change that. Also, computer engineer William English made the mouse a reality.

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Sun, sand, and surf are all synonymous with Southern California’s famous beaches.

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Shrines celebrate Black individuality, newspaper clippings highlight the complexity of the Black experience, and eerie lullabies stir memory and loneliness.

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A UCLA study found that around 449,000 renters in LA County were unemployed because of COVID-19 and had no income to pay their rent.

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