“Weekend With” is a series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their days…
“Weekend With” is a new series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their…
This article has been updated with corrections. The pitch sounds almost too good to be true: An all-expenses paid six-month…
Here’s my message for those of you who think the robot revolution isn’t going to change the design industry: think…
Nicole Killian is an artist and graphic designer whose work “investigates how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and…
Through our ongoing Design + Education coverage this year, we had the privilege of talking to educators from around the world…
As illustration programme director at London’s Camberwell College of Arts, Darryl Clifton couldn’t be better placed to consider the complexities of…
This is my favorite line ever uttered in one of those flipping-through-the-portfolio presentations that designers love to give: “Only a…
Well, we’ve once again made it to Friday—and a spring Friday, at that. Which, depending on where you are in…
Let me take you back, briefly, to an uncomfortable time when you had fickle skin, fickle friends, and a crisis…
It’s safe to say that we’ve reached critical mass on the whole built-for-Instagram pop-up trend. The world may not need another…
Eye on Design #04 is the “Worth” issue, filled with stories that question the way we value design—measured in money,…
Name: Hotel Designers: Yuexin Huo Release Date: Still in development Backstory: When Yuexin Huo left China for the U.S. for…
It’s easy to consider scripty, hand-rendered lettering and gentle color-pencil illustrations as sort of wishy-washy, maybe a little twee. “Girly,”…
Welcome one, welcome all to the weekend. And it’s not just any weekend: this Sunday is Saint Patrick’s Day. So…
For as long as we have existed, humans have tried to make sense of color. Back when our limited color…
There’s a lot of power inherent in the language we use and how we choose to use it. It’s a…
A lot of design businesses claim to be open and transparent, but ask them a pointed question (even off-the-record), and…
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…
