In 2014, Order Design Partner Hamish Smyth created a logo for a project that at the time was just a…
Words by Rebecca Greenwald
Published onFebruary 25th, 2021
Reminisce with me, for a moment, about all the fun of the book fair. A meadow of tabletops unfolds across…
For the last few months, I’ve had a tab open with the type specimen for Columba—a magically warm typeface designed…
We love a good illustration. It’s possible that we love them even more when they’re adorning a fresh-out-the-fridge can of…
We’re all familiar with the “Communist aesthetic”—its bold graphics, hyperrealism, and often stark color schemes. Less familiar is the tender…
Parsing dense government reports that are hundreds of pages in length, set in 12pt Times New Roman, and full of…
Name: CoFo Cinema1909 Designer: Liza Rasskazova Foundry: Contrast Foundry Release Date: Autumn 2020, for exclusive use by Moscow’s Khudozhestvenny Cinema until Autumn 2022 Back…
A deceptively simple question: How are you feeling right now? It’s simple because you’re probably sentient and awake; deceptive because…
If you’ve been worried about your carbon footprint, you can now rest easy—an extensive and growing list of companies, cities,…
Name: Avenir Next World Foundry: Monotype Designers: Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi, Yanek Iontef, Nadine Chahine, Toshi Omagari, Akaki Razmadze, Elena Papassissa…
Imagine, if you will, that you’re in a grocery aisle looking for flour. Your eyes scan bags upon bags for…
The past year has felt like the highest-budget sci-fi movie ever made: rioting mobs swarmed the US Capitol, a deadly…
To see the CIA launch a contemporary rebrand that has been likened to electronic music fliers or a generic tech…
In 1996 while on his hospital sickbed, Huang Hua Cheng was eagerly completing two final projects. The first was his…
2020 was tough. Between a global pandemic, a divisive election, and rising racial tensions, it sometimes felt like the year…
When I arrived to Berlin at the start of this year, Prem Krishnamurthy’s collaborative residency had just come to a…
Here’s my message for those of you who think the robot revolution isn’t going to change the design industry: think…
This story was originally published in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. Vaporwave is a thoroughly internet-birthed…
Briar Levit is an Assistant Professor at Portland State University and graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art &…
Name: Gikit Designer: Benoît Bodhuin Foundry: BB Bureau Release Date: December 2020 Back Story: Benoît Bodhuin, founder of BB Bureau, started…
At first glance, you might think the Maoist era artwork at the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre in Shanghai, China,…
This piece is part of a series that looks at the past year of protests—in Hong Kong, Beirut, Delhi, and…
This piece is part of a series that looks at the past year of protests—in Hong Kong, Beirut, Delhi, and across…
Protest movements shift minds long before they lead to action. This is by nature and design. The welling up of…
“Cae Sal” started with a video. It was 2018, and Molly Baz’s husband had gifted her a pair of Nike…
The French artists Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier drive for about 10 hours every day, looking for reasons to stop…
This latest piece in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album with…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! Sometimes the design scene…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
While diversity and inclusion might be ubiquitous terms in the mission statement of any progressive university, these words alone do…
Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In…
While its name suggests a grandiose collective occupying its own impressive brownstone office, in fact the Office of Culture and…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
Last year, I wrote an article for Eye on Design that asked what decolonization means in the context of design.…
What does it mean to design for social change? For decades designers have tried to push the profession into more…
Beatriz González eschews labels like “pop artist” and “political artist,” which must be tiresome since most people’s first reaction to…
For some people, January is a moment to press pause on drinking. Bottles get hidden away in the bar cabinet.…
Last August, Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic from Europe to the US by solar-powered boat, with the Fridays for the…
In the United States, the presence of the universal recycling icon on a product might lead an unassuming consumer to…
As designers, the work we create can unknowingly perpetuate certain ideologies that have destructive consequences. One of the more obvious…
Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…
One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in…
Mariana Amatullo’s teaching and design practice sits at the intersection of design, design management, and social innovation—one of her primary…
Name: Dédale Designer: Thomas Bouville Foundry: 205TF Release Date: October 2020 Back Story: Dédale began life in 2017 when Thomas…
Risograph zines are publications with much aesthetic hype, but they’re also a medium that allows for a democratic and attainable…
Name: F37 Caslon Foundry: F37 Designer: Rick Banks Release Date: November 2020 Back Story: F37 Caslon is, as the name suggests,…
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