We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! On the day of…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! Around the same time…
Over the past decade, everyone—and I mean everyone—with an online presence felt the pressure to become a content publisher. Coca-Cola.…
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. Surrounded by biryani…
Going to the doctor has always required a level of visual patience. Forms need second reads; digital interfaces require rebooting;…
Saki Mafundikwa is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), a graphic design and new…
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…
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.…
Anyone who was a Mr. Robot fan will remember the scene in which Susan Jacobs, general counsel for the fictional…
For years I have been observing and writing about the rise of our digital identities—the increasing fidelity of them, along…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! When Stanley Kubrick set…
In the late 1950s, a British sociologist coined the term “meritocracy.” He used the phrase satirically, describing a restructuring of…
“It isn’t hard to lose sight of the bigger picture for the things we help build: How could it be…
Now that “screen” is a metonym for all digital technology—“screen time” a shorthand for staring at anything that glows—it’s easy…
Welcome to Spotted, Eye on Design’s column that turns an eye on the styles and graphic trends you’re seeing everywhere.…
Name: Lektorat Designer: Florian Fecher Foundry: TypeTogether Release Date: October 2020 Back Story: Many a design student dreams of producing a senior…
2020 was tough. Between a global pandemic, a divisive election, and rising racial tensions, it sometimes felt like the year…
Writing about design is never just writing about design. Oftentimes, the language of design creeps into other parts of our lives—the…
It’s that time of year when we glance back at the last 12 months in an attempt to understand what…
Another year passed, another season of “best ofs” is upon us. It’s time to look back at the last 12…
In 2012, good kid, m.A.A.d city brought hip hop’s finest new storyteller to the attention of the masses. Kendrick Lamar’s…
QR codes have been the subject of various cycles of derision over the past 20 years, and yet, walk around…
Name: Carta Nueva Designer: My-Lan Thuong Foundry: Sharp Type Release Date: November 2020 Back Story: Type history 101: once upon a…
Carolina Laudon is a Swedish typographer and type designer living in Gothenburg. Laudon studied Fine Art in Painting (Gerlesborgsskolan), earned…
In 2001, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under the direction of architect Rem Koolhaas, published The Harvard…
Benedetta Crippa is an Italian designer living in Stockholm, where she works as lead designer at Stockholm Environment Institute, teaches…
In this excerpt from The Monocle Guide to Good Business, we get a glimpse at some of their expert advice on…
The ability to make things is a gift. The ability to make things beautifully is a blessing. I can no…
One of the perks of being the managing editor at AIGA is spending my mornings reading design stories and calling…
What makes a bad brief? Oh, let us count the ways. Actually, let architects Frank Gehry and David Rockwell, industrial…
To me, it’s all about making connections. We designers connect words and images, visual ideas and concepts. We use associations…
2013 Academy Award-winning movie Gravity is not just a parable about the future of mankind, but of graphic design, too.…