Paul Makovsky is the editorial director of the award-winning publication Metropolis magazine. Formerly he was managing editor of 2wice magazine and a Smithsonian Fellow at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum where he worked on the exhibition and catalogue “Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture.” He recently curated the exhibition “Knoll Textiles: 1945–2010” and contributed to the accompanying catalogue (published by Yale University Press), and is currently working on a biography of the life and work of Florence Knoll.