Many of my articles and books are meant to increase the awareness of design as a valuable resource for change but I also write about whatever I can’t stop thinking about.
Branding for Nonprofits: Developing Identity with Integrity and Design Issues are published by Allworth Press. Both are available at better bookstores and Amazon.com.
Magazine Articles on Design by DK Holland
Current articles may be accessed at http://www.commarts.com/Columns/Design-Issues
Here is a partial list of past articles:
Topic: Our need to work together
Cooperative! Torn Between Me and We, Parts 1-4
Communication Arts, 2012
Not in Agreement: Progress is so messy
Communication Arts, 2012
Uncommon Sense
Communication Arts, 2012
Topic: Rethinking your perspective
Learning to Be Happy, Parts 1 and 2
Communication Arts, 2011
Topic: Why we believe
Tiny Miracles
Communication Arts, 2011
Topic: Why we love to be afraid
Boogie Men
Communication Arts, 2011
Topic: The big picture on design and design education
Blow Up the Design School Parts 1 and 2
Communication Arts, 2011
Design used to inspire greatness. Can it again?
Bringing Hope Back to Design
Communication Arts, 2009
Believe in Magic
Communication Arts, 2009
What’s Changed – Besides Everything
Communication Arts, 2008
The Mind of the AIGA: Where Does Design Go from Here?
Communication Arts, 2004
Nero Fiddles While Rome Burns: One Designer’s View of the 1993 AIGA National Conference
Communication Arts, 1994
Graphic Design Education: Struggling Through those Awkward Teenage Years
Communication Arts, 1992
Topic: Thinking about thinking
Being Human
Communication Arts, 2011
Helter Skelter
Communication Arts, 2010
Thinking in Systems Design and Otherwise, Parts 1 and 2
Communication Arts, 2010
Topic: Ethics and emotions collide
Where Our Wild Things Are, Parts 1 and 2
Communication Arts, 2010
Deceit of Packaging
Communication Arts, 2008
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Capture Your Imagination
Communication Arts, 2008
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Knock on Wood
Communication Arts, 2007
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Topic: For the love of Outsider Art
Disobey the Giant
The Post Graffiti Art Movement
Communication Arts, 2007
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Topic: The TED Conference – for those who can’t go / want to understand its evolution
TED: The Future We Create
Communication Arts, 2006
TED: This is not a Conference
Communication Arts, 2005
The Future Belongs to Those Who Create It
The TED 2004 Conference
Communication Arts, 2004
A Blind Man Juggles: A Deaf Woman Plays the Vibes
The 2003 TED Conference: Reasons for Hope
Communication Arts, 2003
Meme Machine, The Annual TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference Stimulates and Promulgates New Ideas About the World
Communication Arts, 2002
Topic: Understanding the design profession in America
The Aspen Design Summit
Communication Arts, 2006
Topic: Technology and its implications
Reweaving the Web
written with Ben Whitehouse
Communication Arts, 2006
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Topic: The non profit/design conundrum
Cause & Effect, Why Now, More than Ever, the Nonprofit World Needs Design and Vice Versa
Communication Arts, 2002
Various and sundry topics:
The Play Imperative, Why Some Americans Must Have More Fun
Communication Arts, 2001
Anna, The Queen of I-Am
Adbusters, 2001 (fiction)
Keeping Promises, The Impact of Brands on Society, Parts One and Two
Communication Arts, 1998
Discovering America (Or Someplace Close Enough)
Communication Arts, 1997
Paranoia: How to Get Some if You Don’t Have Any Already
Communication Arts, 1997
Root of the Problem
Communication Arts, 1995
The Designer and Client Partnership
Communication Arts Magazine, 1995
Anatomy of a Graphic Designer
AIGA Journal, 1994
Four Contemporary Japanese Designers
Communication Arts, 1994
Speaking Volumes: The Crying Need for Writings on Graphic Design
AIGA Journal, 1993
The Merchandising Designers
Communication Arts, 1993
Alternative Toys: Ninja Turtles Go Home!
Print Magazine, 1992
Think First, Design Later, How Market Research is Affecting the Evolution of Graphic Design
Communication Arts, l992
Graphic Design, An Unprotected Frontier of Intellectual Property
Design Management Journal, 1991
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AIGA Journal, 1991
How Bad is Bad? And How to Make It Better
AIGA Journal, 1990
Design Books by DK Holland
Design Issues
Editor, Writer and Art Director
Rockport/Allworth, 2002
Marketing By Design
Author and Art Director, with Cheryl Lewin
Rockport/Allworth, 1995
Graphic Design: New York (Volumes 1 and 2)
Organizer and Co-Art Director, with Michael Bierut and William Drenttel
Rockport/Allworth, 1992, 1995
Graphic Design: America (Volumes 1 and 2)
Organizer and Co-Art Director, with Michael Bierut and William Drenttel
Rockport, 1992, 1995
Looking Closer (Volumes 1 and 2)
Co-Editor, with Steven Heller, Michael Beirut and William Drenttel Rockport/Allworth Press, 1992, 1995
Design in Depth
Co-Organizer and Co-Art Director, with Roger Whitehouse
Rockport/Allworth, 1993
Great Package Design (Volumes 1 and 2)
Author and Art Director, with Cheryl Lewin
Rockport/Allworth, 1991, 93
Signs and Spaces
Organizer and Co-Art Director, with Roger Whitehouse
Rockport/Allworth, 1992
Books reviewed by DK Holland
Design by Nature by Maggie McNab, Communication Arts 2011
Chasing the Perfect by Natalia Ilyin
Communication Arts, Dec 2006
On Brand, by Wally Olins
Communication Arts magazine, Sept/Oct 2004
Designing Brand Identity, by Alina Wheeler
Communication Arts magazine, Mar/Apr 2004