What’s the best way to persuade the millions of Americans who are still unvaccinated against Covid-19 to get their shots? Reassuring public service announcements about the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness have proliferated. But increasingly, people are realizing that it will take more than just information to sway the hesitant. In recent randomized survey experiments by…
Courtesy of the designers. The murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and the resulting uprisings sparked a wave of support—some of it genuine, much of it hollow—for the Black community. The response from the fashion industry ranged from posting black boxes on Instagram as a clumsy, superficial display of solidarity to…
“We are what we remember of ourselves,” says Michael Anderson, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge who studies memory. How you will remember your life as an 80-year-old will depend on the ways you hold on to, or let go of, memories. Your brain is always in the process of forgetting,…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. Building your dream house is a wonderful thing. But what happens when the dream changes? Just ask David Kelley, the founder of the global design firm IDEO. In 2000, he became one of only three people…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. It’s the furniture equivalent of sweatpants. After a year in which many people hung up their office attire and evening wear in favor of all-day pajamas, a design trend that has been bubbling up for years…
Mr. Donaldson declined to be interviewed. A representative for him declined to address the working conditions at his companies but said of the videos with offensive content: “When Jimmy was a teenager and was first starting out, he carelessly used, on more than one occasion, a gay slur. Jimmy knows there is no excuse for…
Christopher Carter regularly uses reclaimed lumber, faded rope, tarnished metal and other found materials to create his large-scale sculptures. So when the Miami-based artist needed a new studio and began dreaming of building a live-work space, he knew it would involve many repurposed components. What he didn’t realize was that it would eventually be the…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. A legacy of the pandemic — maybe a long one — is that our homes and offices are becoming the same. More than ever we look for versatility in furnishings, and design companies are stepping up…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. Artisans and designers, including Japanese temple builders, female silversmiths and African-American midcentury modernists, are rescued from obscurity (or simply appreciated from afar) in six insightful new books. More than 1,000 lustrous Victorian vessels appear in “Majolica…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. The latest home-related TikTok video to go viral begins with a woman’s voice patiently explaining that during the pandemic her husband turned their basement into … a video rental store. As she speaks, the camera pans…