It’s the middle of the workday in New York City and I’m watching a shaky phone video of a transit…
Once you start, you can’t help but see them everywhere when it comes to the design and illustration world: the…
As a child, a cat always became a bat. My name was not Maddy but Mubby. Stranger still, a dog…
This story is part of a series that explores the results of the 2019 Design Census. Read the first story,…
After my first day interning at a design studio in London one summer, I returned home on the verge of…
This is the second piece in our series that weighs the pros and cons of living and working in Mumbai’s…
Following in the footsteps of our London City Guide, this is the first in a new series that weighs the…
This is the third piece in our series that weighs the pros and cons of living and working in Mumbai’s creative…
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…
If I had to explain the design ethos of Jacobin to someone who’d never encountered the magazine, the phrase “Ikea…
Designers like to think design is an amazing, transformative force for the betterment of the human condition. But the rest…
Name: Zooba Designer: Gabriela Namie and Junki Hong from &Walsh, with Cairo-based calligrapher Mohamed Mohamed Foundry: Not a foundry as…
In May 2019, an assistant curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was sitting in a car with a number…
This article is excerpted from the sixth issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on…
Unless you’ve been living in a Brutalist cave, you’re probably very much aware that 2019 is the centenary of the…
Wedged between white paper folders at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) archive, there’s a curiously emphatic black binder coated…
Code is a tool—a string of numbers, glyphs, and letters that when arranged in a particular order can be wielded…
In the early 1930s, Iwao Yamawaki and Michiko Yamawaki arrived at the gates of the Bauhaus in Dessau all the way…
In 1920, Vladimir Lenin signed a decree that was to have a monumental effect on artists in post-revolutionary Russia. This…
In Germany during the 1930s, there was just one lifestyle magazine that every young woman had to have. An essential…
After moving to New York City to take her first job as a layout artist for Random House, Paula Scher…
With the reams of new independent magazines springing up every week, editorial and design trends are evolving quickly. The latest one…
Every Friday we raise a glass to celebrate some of the best new boozy bottles to hit store shelves. This…
This month The Poster Boys survey the golden age of Cuban posters, created during and after the Cuban Revolution. In…
The first thing that strikes you about Diego Zambrano is his beard, a formidable work of facial hair impressive enough to…
As editorial director at AIGA, I keep tabs on all the design news (so you don’t have to) and bring you…
Once upon a time there were two Danish girls named Nan Na Hvass and Sofie Hannibal who, quite independently of…
Truth be told, I’ve been waiting to write about the very first issue of the excellent new broadsheet put out…
Antwerp-based graphic designer and educator Ines Cox is fascinated by the ignored and forgotten. She approaches a commission by thinking just…
Our weekly look at a favorite new typeface. Share yours with us on Twitter and Instagram @AIGAdesign with #TypeTuesday. Name: Phoreus…