is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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We’re going to war, and I sincerely hope that this war will be successful, swift and merciful. Like many Americans, I have great confidence that this will be the case. What really worries me is what we will reap from this doctrine of “preemption” that has come to the forefront of American foreign policy. Though it’s a bit late, both this major piece in 
In a rare sign of industriousness, Congressional Democrats have assembled a damning catalog of 
This is not made up: the State Department is distributing these crazy matchbooks — bankrolled by a private nonprofit called ‘Rewards for Justice’ — advertising the $25 million bounty on “Usama bin Laden.” The design has the aesthetic quality of a check cashing joint, and it is clearly and cynically aimed at the same constituency.
Congratulations to 
You’ve got a credibility problem when Business Week — which, to paraphrase “
No doubt a cease and desist letter will soon take this Web page down, but if you can catch it before that happens, it’s a hoot: the Defective Yeti’s 
Maryland has a new