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…

Last August, Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic from Europe to the US by solar-powered boat, with the Fridays for the…

In the United States, the presence of the universal recycling icon on a product might lead an unassuming consumer to…

As designers, the work we create can unknowingly perpetuate certain ideologies that have destructive consequences. One of the more obvious…

Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…

One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in…

Mariana Amatullo’s teaching and design practice sits at the intersection of design, design management, and social innovation—one of her primary…

Sometimes the design scene can feel like a Eurocentric monolith. Does every app need to look as if it were…

Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…

While diversity and inclusion might be ubiquitous terms in the mission statement of any progressive university, these words alone do…

Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In…

While its name suggests a grandiose collective occupying its own impressive brownstone office, in fact the Office of Culture and…

“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…

Last year, I wrote an article for Eye on Design that asked what decolonization means in the context of design.…

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…