The design process is always the result of a negotiation. Design for and from a theater is no exception, reaching…
In July 2020, Briar Levit, a professor of graphic design at Portland State University, uploaded an early 20th century sign…
Six years ago, back in 2014, I had the chance to sit down with Enzo Mari at his Milanese home.…
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness.…
Spurred by the economic crisis of the coronavirus pandemic and social upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, independent publishers…
If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
Forest Young’s career has spanned an impressive range of disciplines and contexts. He was recently named Wolff Olins’s first Global…
Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages…
J. Dakota Brown studied graphic design at North Carolina State University and critical theory at the School of the Art…
David Jon Walker is an assistant professor of graphic design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, as well…
Kathleen Sleboda’s work traverses disciplines, often involving acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. Sleboda has been teaching at the…
There’s always been a certain mythology associated with California—that moving there somehow inherently holds the promise for limitless potential. Within…
I knew the names of Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie from the masthead of Chrysalis, the ’70s feminist cult magazine…
Tucked into a quiet corner of Orijit Sen’s studio lies a dog-eared copy of River of Stories, one of the…
This article is part of our exploration of design and psychedelia. Pick up a copy of Eye on Design #02,…
For the uninitiated, hardcore was a subgenre of punk that has since become most famed for its more political movements…
In 1920, Vladimir Lenin signed a decree that was to have a monumental effect on artists in post-revolutionary Russia. This…
During the mid-twentieth century, perhaps no other American company exemplified technological achievement, business acumen, and good design better than IBM.…
How do you like your drinks? Sustainable? Functional? Merely hydrating? This month’s picks offer more than anyone really needs, but…
As gender-neutral pronouns become more commonplace in spoken language, they haven’t yet found a secure perch in written text. With…
For as long as non-designers have needed to create design-centric work, there have been tools and services that help them…
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
Name: Arras Designer: Barrett Reid-Maroney Release Date: August 2021 Back Story: “Suit the action to the word, the word to…
Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (designed by Random House’s Rachel Ake Keuch) has been one of the most consequential pieces of…
Name: Pimpit Designer: Benoît Bodhuin Foundry: BB Bureau Release Date: June 2021 Back Story: Nantes-based graphic designer and typographer Benoît Bodhuin first…
For more than four decades, Terry Irwin, one of this year’s AIGA Medalists, has been a formative figure in design…
The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…
For Eiko Ishioka, one of Japan’s most groundbreaking designers, creativity was an amorphous, fluid medium that she dipped into, gently…
Ritu Ghiya is an artist, designer, and web developer. She helps design Sounds About Riso, a risograph fair founded by…
Five years ago, graphic designers Maurits Wouters and Bram Broerse were in The Netherlands, sitting lake-side in Utrecht on a…
As editorial director at AIGA, I keep tabs on all the design news (so you don’t have to) and bring you…
In a perfect world there would be good design for everyone. Street signs, homes, magazines, posters, and identity systems—everything would…
When the founders of Pupilpeople became parents two years ago, the graphic designers struggled to find quality toys for their…
You know those weekends when you’re gathering wood for the fire, sweeping the garden of leaves, picking up succulents at…
When the National Museum of Women in the Arts launched the #5womenartists hashtag for Women’s History Month this past March, it…
There really is a commemorative day for everything under the sun. Don’t believe me, then head over to Wikipedia and…
Among the greatest gifts that technology has given type over the last decades is the ability to animate letterforms with ease.…
Not all designers prefer sleek and tidy graphics. At Rotterdam-based design studio Team Thursday, founders Loes van Esch and Simone Trum believe…
Impartiality is not an issue most designers have to contend with, even less so journalistic integrity. Those who practice their craft…
