Design Observer Celebrates Five Years of Keen Design Observations

It was a dark and stormy Wednesday night in Manhattan, but those who made it to the doors of Element, a 19th-century bank turned 21st-century nightclub, needed only to utter the not-so-secret password (“Design Observer“) to be welcomed into the whirl of designers, drinks, music, and residual election glee that was the eminent design blog’s fifth anniversary party. Editors Michael Bierut, William Drenttel, and Jessica Helfand were on hand, with Helfand signing copies of her exquisite new book, Scrapbooks: