Magazines

Kinfolk Made a Magazine for Parents, and Yes, It Looks Really Nice

When you read the words “Kinfolk made a parenting magazine”, a certain image might come to mind: A mom…

Magazines

Kinfolk Made a Magazine for Parents, and Yes, It Looks Really Nice

What should a magazine for “people with children” look like?

Words by
Liz Stinson

Published on
June 16th, 2021

Type Tuesday

Action Text Brings Personality and Bite to the Smooth World of Screen Type

Name: Action Text Designer: Erik van Blokland Foundry: Commercial Type Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Here’s the thing: the attention span of…

Graphic design

Ontological Design Has Become Influential In Design Academia – But What Is It?

Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds — Anthropologist Arturo Escobar’s powerful argument for reimagining…

Op-ed

We Need Graphic Design Histories That Look Beyond the Profession

Graphic design history is, generally speaking, a history of professional practice. In text books, at conferences, and for college courses,…

Design History 101

Ken Garland Was Graphic Design’s Moral Compass

Ken Garland, who died in May at the grand age of 92, was an enigmatic figure in the graphic design…

Books

Jacob Lindgren Recommends 7 Publications That Take An Expansive Approach To Graphic Design

We think Chicago based bookstore Inga offers some of the most interesting graphic design titles out there, and we’re always…

Graphic design

Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers of Our Era?

When trying to understand how cities work – how they develop over time and how their social lives have come…

Books

This Experimental Publisher Is Rethinking How Design Books Get Made

The idea of crowdfunding books on design is no longer a new concept. Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter has…

Happy Hour

Beverage Branding That’s All About the Typography

Rich color is such a common feature of beverage packaging (and really, all kinds of packaging) these days that it’s…

Type Tuesday

Faubourg is an Unapologetic Ode to Parisian Vernacular Lettering

Name: Faubourg Designer: Marie Boulanger, with creative and technical guidance from Neil Summerour Foundry: Positype Release Date: April 2021 Back…

Magazines

Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

“Why another graphic design magazine?” asked the cover of the first issue of Dot Dot Dot, published in April 2000.…

Type Tuesday

Blood, Bile, and Phlegm—All Poured into One Stylish New Type Family

Name: Immortel Designer: Clément Le Tulle-Neyret Foundry: 205TF Release Date: April 2021 Back Story: Immortel, the first retail typeface by Paris-based…

Editors’ Picks

Design History 101

Porto’s São João National Theater Offers a Lesson in Design as Public Service

The design process is always the result of a negotiation. Design for and from a theater is no exception, reaching…

Graphic design

The People’s Graphic Design Archive Is Rethinking How We Talk About Design History

In July 2020, Briar Levit, a professor of graphic design at Portland State University, uploaded an early 20th century sign…

Design History 101

Revisiting Enzo Mari, the Design Maverick Who Left a Clear Message to Today’s Designers

Six years ago, back in 2014, I had the chance to sit down with Enzo Mari at his Milanese home.…

Profiles

Designer Rush Jackson on Making Work that Expands and Shapes the Black Cultural Lexicon

For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness.…

Graphic design

Publishing Will Not Be Another Victim of the Pandemic

Spurred by the economic crisis of the coronavirus pandemic and social upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, independent publishers…

Illustration

The Beauty and Violence of Ernst Haeckel’s Illustrations

If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…

Design + Diversity

There Is No Such Thing As Neutral Graphic Design

What does it mean to design “normal” things for “normal” people? Western society defines certain individuals and communities as average…

Graphic design

Does the “I Got Vaccinated” Sticker Have Swaying Power?

I walk out of the Javits Center wearing my vaccine sticker like a medal. People are looking at me, I…

Profiles

Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

“ο καλύμνιος σφουγγαράς ψιθύρισε πως θα βουτήξει χωρίς να διστάζει” “the Kalymnos sponge-diver whispered that he would dive without hesitation”…

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Design + Education

Creative Director and Teacher Forest Young on Designing a More Inclusive Future

Forest Young’s career has spanned an impressive range of disciplines and contexts. He was recently named Wolff Olins’s first Global…

Design + Education

Offshore Studio’s Isabel Seiffert on Her Teaching Practice + Merging Concept and Form

Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages…

Design + Education

Designer + Educator J. Dakota Brown Is Untangling the Relationship Between Design and Labor

J. Dakota Brown studied graphic design at North Carolina State University and critical theory at the School of the Art…

Design + Education

Educator David Jon Walker on Transitioning Between Communities Without Losing a Sense of Self

David Jon Walker is an assistant professor of graphic design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, as well…

Graphic design

Designer, Educator + Publisher Kathleen Sleboda on Online Archives and Plural Narratives

Kathleen Sleboda’s work traverses disciplines, often involving acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. Sleboda has been teaching at the…

Type Tuesday

Norbert, an Unaffected Yet Surprising Grotesque Typeface

Name: Norbert Designer: Philipp Neumeyer Foundry: TypeMates Release Date: January 2021 Back story: In 2016, Phillipp Neumeyer was smitten by some gorgeous metal…

Branding

It’s Never Been Easier To Start a Brand. What Does That Mean For the Future of Design?

Like many people, Caroline Reid experienced a sudden and unwelcome drop in business when the pandemic hit the U.S. last…

Design + Politics

If “Labor Is Entitled to All It Creates,” Where Does That Leave Graphic Design?

One of the most enlightening, empowering, and transformative experiences I had as a design fellow at the Walker Art Center…

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