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 we raise a glass to celebrate some of the best new boozy bottles to hit store shelves. This…
On the sliding scale of financial impracticality—just above gambling addiction, slightly below derivatives trading—sits small press publishing, adrenaline rush of…
Sarah Boris is a graphic designer who manages to create work with a highly conceptual bias that’s always fit for…
As editorial director at AIGA… I’m kidding! That’s still definitely Perrin’s job. But I’m taking over the reins here at Design…
The famed Bauhaus textile designs of Ani Albers and Gunta Stölzl weren’t the kind of tapestries that homeowners in the 20s…
When branding studio Somewhere Else was commissioned to transform Singapore’s oldest architecture journal into “the architect’s magazine,” there was one…
A set of sunny posters with 100 unique designs created by fun-loving graphic design agency Studio Spass are currently peppered throughout the streets…
Spanning a decades-long career with over 130 film posters to his name, illustrator Bob Peak has left an indelible mark…
For decades, people have tried to “quantify” typefaces according to how we respond to them on a psychological level. But…
If you’re a designer or illustrator who could use some money to make your next big dream project come true,…
