Mimi Onuoha is an artist who works mostly with algorithms, data sets, and digital systems, but her best known work…
Netflix is keeping us awake. I’m not talking about its latest gameshow Awake: The Million Dollar Game, where contestants must…
This article is excerpted from the fifth issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on…
There’s a common refrain on Twitter that can be heard echoing across the feed any time there’s a big news…
One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in…
Last week I made progress. I was down 20 minutes. Instead of spending an average of three hours a day…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
In May 2019, an assistant curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was sitting in a car with a number…
This roundtable interview was first published in Eye on Design Magazine, issue #05: Distraction. To many, social media and education…
It’s the middle of the workday in New York City and I’m watching a shaky phone video of a transit…
The UK graphic design collective Evening Class is incredibly organized. The online flyer for its event What Could a Union…
E Roon Kang lives and works in New York, where he operates the interdisciplinary design and research studio Math Practice,…
Elizabeth Carey Smith is a creative director whose focus is on furthering the overlap of New York’s type designers, art…
Rebecca Wright isn’t one to shy away from big questions. As co-founder of the publishing, curation, and design advocacy organization…
Nicole Killian is an artist and graphic designer whose work “investigates how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and…
As the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Gail Anderson (a 2008 AIGA Medalist) has once again…
Elizabeth White is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her work explores “social, psychological, and political themes including maintenance and self-preservation;…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
Our Weekend With series looks at the world through the eyes of a designer on their days off. Last time,…
“Weekend With” is a new series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their…
“Weekend With” is a series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their days…
In these strange and uncertain times, it’s more important than ever that we speak up about creative industry mental health…
This article was originally published in 2018 in the “Worth” issue of Eye on Design magazine. We’re republishing it today…
Name: Unknown Type Designer: Lukas Haider and Alexander Raffl Release Date: March 3, 2020 Backstory: Lukas Haider and Alexander Raffl…
In Ines Alpha’s world, everyday faces turn into futuristic landscapes. Through a mere swipe, the face filters imagined by the…
Stuck inside with nowhere to go? Good. We’re hunkered down, too, with a glass of something in hand and some…
In 2017, SVA product design student Antya Waegemann was volunteering as a domestic violence advocate in a New York City…
With tax deadlines on the horizon, we’re shifting our attention—albeit, just slightly—away from type design and smart graphics, and towards…
Name: Ansage Designer: Alejandro Freitez Foundry: Sudtipos Release Date: January 2020 Back Story: A well-worn chestnut of wisdom in the…
Bernie Sanders’ campaign logo is one of the defining visual representations of socialism for many Americans, but look a little…
From our respective home offices, we’ve been scanning the web over the past few days to collect tips and resources…
Jaime Levy’s real name is not Jaime. She won’t tell me what her real name is, only that her parents…
In an episode of the beloved animated 1960s sci-fi sitcom The Jetsons, Mrs. Jetson decides that housework is becoming too…
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.…
