New year, same Design Diary—our weekly feature bringing you the most interesting projects we came across this week. For more…
Psst, have you heard? Eye on Design made a gossip magazine! Eye on Design #03 is packed with stories about…
Rebecca Wright isn’t one to shy away from big questions. As co-founder of the publishing, curation, and design advocacy organization…
Mariana Amatullo’s teaching and design practice sits at the intersection of design, design management, and social innovation—one of her primary…
As the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Gail Anderson (a 2008 AIGA Medalist) has once again…
Typography is often described in musical terms: we speak about its rhythm, pacing, and the relationships between positive and negative…
Last month, a curious website called Folder Market popped up with the tagline “Sell from your Dropbox.” Hawking products with names…
In its latest recruitment campaign for the British Army, creative agency Karmarama has drawn upon both historic and very (overly?)…
In a developing story, it has come to our attention that a client is hoping their designer’s work could be…
Generally speaking pretty generally, climate change isn’t the most popular topic for personal graphic design projects; though a solar-powered website and…
Name: Fixture Designer: Alejandro Paul Foundry: Sudtipos Release Date: September, 2018 Backstory: “It started like a game,” says Ale Paul, one of the founders of…
Recently, #bauhaus overtook #brutalism as one of the most popular design and architecture hashtags on Instagram. Peruse through the associated…
You know that old saying, “if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life?” I…
Happy New Year! May all your resolutions come true. Here at Eye on Design we’re carrying on our longstanding tradition of…
In early 2018, a designer posted on Facebook that only around one-third of the speakers at Brno’s International Biennial of…
You don’t need to be a kerning king or an x-height twitcher to recognize the value of type, not…
Each week we invite a designer to illustrate his or her favorite quotes by famous creatives. This week Scotty Russell…
Every Friday afternoon we raise a glass with the packaging design experts at The Dieline and celebrate some of the…
It can be tricky to whittle down the definition of “visual storytelling,” when, if you think about it, everything from…
One of the perks of being the managing editor at AIGA is spending my mornings reading design stories and calling…
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
Rocks are an unlikely source of inspiration, unless, of course, you’re in the mining business—or you happen to be designing…
When we think about legendary designer Paul Rand, many things come to mind: a slew of corporate logos for the likes of IBM, UPS, Westinghouse,…
Architect Federico Babina has designed hundreds of fantastical, seemingly surreal houses. He’s conceived of alphabet-shaped buildings in the image of Le…
“Inspiration does exist but it must find you working.” (If you’ve been following this series, you may have noticed that…
After scanning the widely divergent work by Brussels-based design studio Bold, it’s not hard to imagine that the founders were once graffiti…
