On the day of my interview with Olimpia Zagnoli—via FaceTime from London—I take a peek at the celebrated 36-year-old illustrator’s…
Around the same time every year, half-way through the Spring semester, just as the pull of Summer begins, my students…
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…
The act of voting has never felt so critical. With accusations of rigged elections, voter fraud, machine malfunctions, and vote…
For many extended families across the United Kingdom, 2016 became the year that we stopped talking to one another. Something…
It would seem that the development of a strong campaign identity, and intuitively, an associated political identity, would be extremely…
Protest movements shift minds long before they lead to action. This is by nature and design. The welling up of…
It was the fall of 1852 and school was in session for a lucky group of women who were invited…
I started following @broobs.psd on Instagram on May 1, International Workers Day, after I saw several friends sharing a poster…
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…
When Stanley Kubrick set out to design the videophone featured in his 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, he enlisted…
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…
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…
This is the second installment in a series of articles that each focus on a summer school, residency, or alternate…
In the essay that accompanied the program for their show I’m Not Trying To Change Anything, I’m Just Changing (2019),…
Name: Diode Designer: Natasha Lucas Foundry: MuirMcNeil Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Designer Natasha Lucas first began a series of visual experiments…
Any election year is accompanied by the inevitable onslaught of political advertising—find it on social media, on billboards and bumpers,…
“We’ve had enough!” “The revolution is female!” “Fuck PiS!” These are some of the chants resounding through the streets and…
Chronology is so ubiquitous that it seems almost natural. Human beings age and die, which means we experience linear duration…
Eda Levenson and Geneva White do not run a charity. They do not run an after-school program, or a mentorship…
Name: Maxi Designer: Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, and Andree Paat Foundry: Dinamo Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Maxi was one…
This is the fifth in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album…
Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…
Architectural notation, the precise language by which windows and doors become lines and arcs, typically has little use outside of…
K-pop encompasses a lot more than just the common label of popular music from South Korea. It’s an entire industry,…
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…
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…
After scanning the widely divergent work by Brussels-based design studio Bold, it’s not hard to imagine that the founders were once graffiti…
Recent communication design graduate Tobias Faisst may be new to the industry, but he’s already established his own strikingly minimal style informed…
For those of us with fertile minds and shallow pockets, furthering a creative education has never been easier or more affordable, thanks…
How do you enter the immense body of repetitious work left by the late On Kawara? You might approach it as an effort…
