There’s a beautiful sense of quiet confidence that underpins the work of Switzerland-based graphic designer and teacher Alice Franchetti. It’s…
Words by Emily Gosling
Published onAugust 20th, 2018
Hello, and welcome to Design Diary, a collection of five projects from across the world that have impressed us this week. …
Now’s your chance to call out bad practices in the design world—anonymously. Complete this online form and tell us your tales…
I knew the names of Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie from the masthead of Chrysalis, the ’70s feminist cult magazine…
What role might type play in working toward a better Western understanding of the Arabic-speaking world? After all, text carries…
Name: Super Fat Bob Designer: Jean-Baptiste Morizot Foundry: Phantom Foundry Release Date: June 2018 Back Story: Throughout his career, Jean-Baptiste Morizot…
You can barely move for a striking, playful Camille Walala print in London these days, and that’s no bad thing.…
Few brands boast such a rich visual heritage as Campari. Its archives shimmer with the sleek sophistication that only 20th…
In April of this year, Google Fonts launched a morphing, monochromatic mini-site to promote the first collection of Korean typefaces to…
On a recent afternoon, the lead story on Buzzfeed.com ran under the headline “What a Pain in the Pass 💳😬.” The…
Classic films like Pulp Fiction or One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest have achieved iconic status in our collective pop culture…
Name: Bisect Designer: Natasha Lucas in collaboration with MuirMcNeil Foundry: MuirMcNeil Release Date: July 2018 Back Story: While still a student at the London College…
When Matthew Jones was a teenager, he would regularly purchase packs of blank VHS tapes at the Walgreens opposite his…
So far, Simoul Alva’s graphic design career has taken her from her birthplace in Mumbai, India, to Paris, Abu Dhabi, Russia,…
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…
In 2018, co-working doesn’t stand for collaboratively working or even collectively working. Today, it’s a sign-on-the-dotted-line arrangement where one warm…
It’s easy to spot a Will Bryant piece—look for the colors, the cut-out shapes, the Memphis-inspired irreverence, and the strange…
Snow covers the peaks surrounding the Glarus valley on the Northern fringes of the Swiss Alps. A string of villages…
