Design The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered... Virginia Postrel 24
Creativity When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing... Virginia Postrel 24
Creativity In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing... Virginia Postrel 31
Creativity The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and... Virginia Postrel 26
Psychology Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. Virginia Postrel 30
Future Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people... Virginia Postrel 27
Architecture A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even... Virginia Postrel 25
