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Meg Farmer

Los Angeles

Design Writer & Researcher; Senior Project Manager at Freelance

Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Meg Farmer |Anthony Rendall |Amy Coetsee |Euan Ritchie

    1 Introduction The global biodiversity extinction crisis is a consequence of rapid and severe landscape change across the world; principally driven by key threats including habitat fragmentation and degradation, and the introduction of invasive species, predators and pathogens (Daszak et al. 2000; Koh et al. 2004; Pimm and Raven 2000).

  • 2 months ago | itsnicethat.com | Meg Farmer

    Landmarked monuments around the world signify cultural values and architectural prowess. England has Stonehenge. Paris has its Eiffel Tower. New York? The Statue of Liberty, also engineered by Eiffel. Rio has Christ the Redeemer. There is Chichén Itzá’s complex of Mayan ruins on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Rome’s Trevi Fountain collects around $1.5 million USD annually in coins while the Grand Canyon in Arizona collects nothing but awe. Some monuments are natural, others manmade.

  • Feb 18, 2025 | printmag.com | Meg Farmer

    Rebellion in type means breaking with tradition—challenging conventions and embracing unpredictability, as seen in the radical shifts of movements like Dadaism or Bauhaus. Idealism is the drive to push design towards clarity and beauty, creating type that is both functional and expressive. The hands of self-determined designers have been caked in the primordial mud of Modernism since 1920 when Walter Gropius revised the radically welcoming admissions policy of the Bauhaus School.

  • Feb 18, 2025 | l8r.it | Meg Farmer

    Rebellion in type means breaking with tradition—challenging conventions and embracing unpredictability, as seen in the radical shifts of movements like Dadaism or Bauhaus. Idealism is the drive to push design towards clarity and beauty, creating type that is both functional and expressive. The hands of self-determined designers have been caked in the primordial mud of Modernism since 1920 when Walter Gropius revised the radically welcoming admissions policy of the Bauhaus School.

  • Nov 12, 2024 | itsnicethat.com | Meg Farmer

    Despite dwelling in a sprawling commuter city, Los Angeles creatives are coalescing at grassroots design events, often hidden in unassuming industrial nooks. Produced by independent design studios, galleries, and publishers who are committed to fueling the city’s creative heart, they mark an especially ripe time to get lost in design.