Since opening shop in 2009, Zurich-based independent foundry Grilli Type has quietly built a reputation for expertly drawn contemporary designs.…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! When Stanley Kubrick set…
Beatriz González eschews labels like “pop artist” and “political artist,” which must be tiresome since most people’s first reaction to…
Chronology is so ubiquitous that it seems almost natural. Human beings age and die, which means we experience linear duration…
To deem [dēm], is to regard or consider something in a specified way; to make relevant. This is precisely the…
Familiar are the exquisite dips and curlicues of traditional Arabic calligraphy, but what is known of the rich history of…
There was a time, around 2013–2016, when the most experimental magazine in the world wasn’t some Berlin fashion zine that…
On a recent weekend afternoon, I found myself in my neighborhood grocery store contemplating a wall of beer. This section…
In 2017, Bon Appetit launched a spinoff website, Healthyish, centered around an ethos that, in its words, “sums up the…
When Democrat Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate race in Georgia was forced into a runoff, his campaign changed up its social…
In 2001, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under the direction of architect Rem Koolhaas, published The Harvard…
“Cae Sal” started with a video. It was 2018, and Molly Baz’s husband had gifted her a pair of Nike…
Forest Young’s career has spanned an impressive range of disciplines and contexts. He was recently named Wolff Olins’s first Global…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages…
Saki Mafundikwa is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), a graphic design and new…
E Roon Kang lives and works in New York, where he operates the interdisciplinary design and research studio Math Practice,…
A few years ago, a friend of Cherise Lavah’s told the self-taught designer she should try freelancing on Fiverr. It’d…
Part 1: Can I Be An Artist Here? I’m an artist working as a graphic designer. There’s a blurry boundary…
In the latest of our Under the Covers series looking at records and their design, we speak with legendary German…
Two months ago, a wave of news coverage around NFTs began to crest across niche art blogs to the New…
There’s something alluring about a clear glass bottle. It says: Nothing to hide here! I am not subject to the…
“Well, presumably the message is for the media. Get it?” —KTVU-2 News There is a conceptual performance by Ant Farm—that…
I met Bahia Shehab about a year ago at a conference on contemporary Arab graphic design in New York. A…
Industry surveys are, by their very nature, a snapshot in time. Pull up the questionnaire, and fill it out. What…
Name: Altform Text Designer: Mark Bloom Foundry: CoType Foundry Release Date: March 2021 Back Story: Mark Bloom launched CoType Foundry in October 2019,…
Open up a newspaper, survey your movie options on Netflix, scroll through Instagram—pick any particularly Pandemic-suited pastime—and you’ll no doubt…
Earth Day doesn’t have an official visual identity, simply because it has had so many over the years. For the…
“We had the first lockdown on the 13th of March, and I think I sent both posters to print on…
Every Friday afternoon we raise a glass with the packaging design experts at The Dieline and celebrate some of the…
One of the perks of being the managing editor at AIGA is spending my mornings reading design stories and calling…
How do you design the cover of an unquestionably depressing novel published, of all times, during the Great Depression? Especially…
At first glance, the work of Karan Singh exudes the psychedelia of days gone by, where bright, undulating, optical patterns à…
For her new exhibition at Charlie James Gallery, “My Film History – Daniela Comani’s Top 100 Films,” Italian artist Daniela Comani…
Last month German design studio Bureau Mirko Borsche relaunched the cult Munich street publication Super Paper, a free monthly distributed…
For the past 14 years, artist Andrea Zittel has lived peaceably in Joshua Tree, California—a quiet and beautiful desert town…
One designer with a penchant for the past took on a monumental design project that involved 50 designers, 50 days, and…
Calling all Paul Rand, Massimo Vignelli, and Max Huber lovers—Hey Studio is bringing its 21st-century take on international-style Modernism to the local Barcelona design…
