• Too many places are STERILE and TORCHED — let’s make them COOL and FUNKY, Blackbird Spyplane
  Am I vibey and cool because I have mismatched plates at home?

I saw a job posting from Netflix looking for a Design Org Manager and got curious…

• What Exactly Is An HR Business Partner (HRBP)?, Personio

• The Three Key Phases Of Change Management Processes, Personio

• ORG DESIGN, Stratechi

• Analysis: With Issue 2, Ohio Republicans seem to go to war with peace-loving Yellow Springs, WVXU

Storefront for Art & Architecture celebrates its 40th anniversary with an archival, retrospective exhibition, The Architect’s Newspaper

• My Parents Are Hackers Out of Necessity, NYT

• Whatever Happened to the Starter Home?, NYT

Why you’re probably not paying your social media manager enough, Long-Dash

• Research Reveals Long-Term Harm of State Pre-K Program, Psychology Today

• JPMorgan Is Building a Giant Travel Agency, WSJ

• The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse, The Guardian
  Terrifying

• Herzog & de Meuron and Piet Oudolf team for Philadelphia’s forthcoming Calder Gardens, The Architect’s Newspaper

• Voters to decide on $1.5 billion bond issue that includes money to expand affordable housing, WOSU

• READY FOR THEIR 'THIRD ACT': Amy Acton and Jennifer Peterson say Rapid 5’s purpose is their passion, Columbus Business First

• The Book That Explains Our Cultural Stagnation, NYT

• Why Are There So Few Old Buildings in America?, Print Magazine

• How to Make a Green Screen Video on TikTok, Skilshare Blog

• ‘Segregation By Design’ Reveals the Ugly Side of Your City, Next City

• Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning becomes the first HBCU to adopt NCARB accelerated licensing program, Architect’s Newspaper

• An Indian sweets brand is reviving the old-world charm of traditional mithais, Vogue India

• Why there's no 'Dijon' in Dijon mustard, World’s Table

• History for Sale: Housewerks Salvage at the Chesapeake Gas Company, Bmore Art

• Dorothy Berry Never Thought She'd Be An Archivist, Lorain

• Jared Kushner’s ‘Breaking History’ Is a Soulless and Very Selective Memoir, NY Times

• Let the Wild Rumpus Start! A Retrospective Celebrates the Illustrated Classics of the Late Maurice Sendak, Colossal

• Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination, NY Times

• Lessons From the Golden Age of the Mall Walkers, City Lab

• The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters, NY Times
  ”Where Mr. Trump was merely a vehicle for disruption, Mr. Masters sees himself and his allies — including his fellow Thiel-backed Senate hopeful J.D. Vance of Ohio — as midwives of transformation.”

• In the Late ’70s, Teen Punks Ruled New York. These Are Their Stories., NY Times

• An Indiana Doctor Speaks Out on Abortion, and Pays a Price, NY Times

• The Daily Heller: A Vision for Branding Nonprofits, Print Mag

• Alexis Mark redesigns the Harvard Design Magazine based on two typographic concepts, It’s Nice That

• A Faux Sweetgreen Storefront in Chinatown Probes the Racial Dynamics of Labor, hyperallergic

• Swoon Speaks to Finding Compassion Through the Act of Looking and Unearthing Her Own Vulnerability, This is colossal

• ‘Parentese’ Is Truly a Lingua Franca, Global Study Finds, NY Times

• Best of Columbus 2022: Hanif Abdurraqib’s Capacity to Love is a Hallmark of His Writing, Columbus Monthly
  I follow Hanif on instagram and am always impressed about how passionate he is about his interests and how he can make his interests interesting to me, who doesn’t naturally hold those same interests (re: sports, shoes)

• Scott Woods: Bringing Back the Christopher Columbus Statue is an Offense, Columbus Monthly

I discovered this neat Detroit-based design firm, Civilla, that works with public institutions. Then I read this NY Times article, “How Tech Is Helping Poor People Get Government Aid.” Which is great that tech is finally diversifying their audience. BUT. It reminds me of when I worked in tech and we brought a team to a Women in Tech Hackathon and created a functional product that helps people on WIC to tell if a product is available for them through WIC and how we didn’t win becuase we didn’t have the flashiest presentation but the product that DID win was a rehash of Blue Apron, meal kits for poorer folks funded through donations. Poor folks are just like us y’all! And it was incredibly disappointing becuase we developed the product prior to these companies and it worked!

• MoMA PS1 Director Kate Fowle Resigns Unexpectedly, hyperallergic

• New MoMA PS1 Director Leans Into Social Justice and Reaches Out to Long Island City, NY Times

• New MoMA PS1 Director Resigns, NY Times

• Life Between Buildings, PS1 Exhibit through Jan 16