“In the early 1980s, [Susan] Kare—then a sculptor and tech-world outsider—pivoted to a graphic designer role at Apple.” So reads…
Words by Meg Miller
Published onApril 19th, 2018
“A crisply designed think tank of articles and essays; more literary journal than design showcase.”—Creative Bloq It’s here, guys. After…
The art of movie title design is a delicate one, often combining imaginative typographic play with thrilling cinematic movement. The…
Snow covers the peaks surrounding the Glarus valley on the Northern fringes of the Swiss Alps. A string of villages…
Name: Saol Text Designer: Florian Schick & Lauri Toikka Foundry: Schick Toikka Release Date: May 2017 Back Story: Every so often, during this century and…
“Body-numbing visuals saturate design culture,” reads a line from the catalog of a new exhibition, The Senses: Design Beyond Vision, now…
Back in March, we spoke to Sanket Avlani, founder of Mumbai’s Design Fabric Festival (DFF), about the need for Indian…
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Design Diary, a collection of five projects from across the world that have impressed us…
On the first floor of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, many everyday objects and devices pose as art, lining…
Theo Deutinger is an optimist, though it’d be easy to assume otherwise. The multi-hyphenate designer, who runs a Vienna-based studio…
Since we ran a piece early this year on some of the clever ways designers have repurposed their rejected works, we’ve…
Name: IBM Plex Designer: Mike Abbink, plus an international team of 15 designers from Austria, Croatia, Israel, Latvia, Poland, Lebanon, the…
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what’s so instantly beguiling about Can Yang’s work: the gorgeous juxtaposition of Chinese characters and…
What does “design for dissent” in 2018 entail? What are its responsibilities, aims, and aspirations? A new book published by…
The human body is a contradiction. It’s simultaneously fascinating, grotesque, familiar, and unexpected. Though artists have used the human form…
Milton Glaser has designed nearly 500 posters over the course of his half-century career. Known by most for his iconic…
Welcome to London! Or at least, our London City Guide, the first of AIGA’s city-specific editorial packages examining what it’s…
As with any city, London life isn’t all rosy. The streets, believe it or not, are neither paved with gold,…
A brief rundown of some of the most influential and revered studios that formed in the English capital, and still…
A brief and by no means exhaustive list of a few of the most famous, formative, and influential projects birthed…
A mini Where Designers Work-style peek into two leading London studios: Wolff Olins and Pentagram. Wolff Olins …
London is renowned for the breadth and sheer number of art and design schools, from University of the Arts London…
Sure, London, you’ve got yer Pentagram, yer Wolff Olins, yer big-studio big-guns. But the beauty of such a creative hubbub…
The old cliche about being tired of London meaning being tired of life is there for a reason: while NYC…
Ed note: None of these people actually exist. These are fictional characters in no way aligned to the agencies…
On entering the 30,000 square foot offices of Swift, the Portland-Based creative digital agency co-founded by Liz Valentine and Alicia…
When Omar Sosa moved from his hometown of Barcelona to New York City in the summer of 2016, he did…
In Mexico City’s central Colonia Juárez neighborhood, just off the major avenue Paseo de la Reforma that runs through the…
