Gender hierarchies are deeply entrenched across the design industry, immediately apparent in agencies, universities, museums, and beyond. Last year we…
There’s a lot of power inherent in the language we use and how we choose to use it. It’s a…
Name: Good Girl Designer: Marion Bisserier Release Date: June 2019 Back Story: During her media and graphic design degree, recent grad Marion Bisserier…
“If I hear the phrase ‘Summer of Love’ one more time, I will scream,” says Louise Sandhaus from her design…
Read any article or report about minorities within the design industry and you’ll come across the words “excluded,” “oppressed,” and…
“Words divide, pictures unite,” or so went the motto of Isotype’s founder, the philosopher and sociologist, Otto Neurath. From its…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
In May 2019, an assistant curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was sitting in a car with a number…
This roundtable interview was first published in Eye on Design Magazine, issue #05: Distraction. To many, social media and education…
It’s the middle of the workday in New York City and I’m watching a shaky phone video of a transit…
The UK graphic design collective Evening Class is incredibly organized. The online flyer for its event What Could a Union…
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…
From our respective home offices, we’ve been scanning the web over the past few days to collect tips and resources…
Jaime Levy’s real name is not Jaime. She won’t tell me what her real name is, only that her parents…
In an episode of the beloved animated 1960s sci-fi sitcom The Jetsons, Mrs. Jetson decides that housework is becoming too…
Name: Bedow Head and Bedow Hand Designer: Bedow, along with Tor Weibull and Alexander Örn of type foundry Kanon Foundry: Kanon Backstory: When…
Somewhere along the long timeline of human existence, society began associating innovation with speed: faster cars, rapid test results, instant…
Dear reader, I’m up early this morning. I’m not a morning person, but if I’m up at 6 a.m. I…
For many extended families across the United Kingdom, 2016 became the year that we stopped talking to one another. Something…
YOU ARE IN THE FRONT YARD OF A LARGE ABANDONED VICTORIAN HOUSE. STONE STEPS LEAD UP TO A WIDE PORCH.…
Name: Finder Designers: Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye, and Zhang Miao Foundry: Black[Foundry] Release Date: January 2020 Back Story: Back…
AI is going to radically change society. It will do so in exciting and even life-saving ways, as we’ve seen…
Just say her name and most graphic designers will inwardly ooh and ahh: Annie Atkins, that art department star of…
Put the word “design” in front of the name of some countries, and it becomes shorthand for a certain aesthetic.…
If you’re old enough or keen enough to have heard of a 2005 Danish film called Dear Wendy, you will…
Sitting alongside its exacting grids, typographic experimentation, and bright, clean art direction, the work of German studio I Like Birds (ILB) radiates…
Ever since July, when Stack Magazines announced the nominees for best magazines of 2016, the world’s independent mag-makers have waited with…
Zurich-based artist Ingo Giezendanner creates densely packed, black and white images of urban scenes; obsessive in their attention to detail but…
Our weekly look at a favorite new typeface. Share yours with us on Twitter @AIGAeyeondesign and Instagram @AIGAeyeondesign with #TypeTuesday. Typeface name: Guru…
In 2013 Craig Oldham produced In Loving Memory of Work, a hard-hitting account of the 1984-5 miner’s strike in Yorkshire,…
In 2013, illustrator and former art director Ana Galvañ launched a web-comic platform called Tik Tok to promote the work…
Every Friday we raise a glass to celebrate some of the best new boozy bottles to hit store shelves. This…
Andreas Samuelsson will listen to a song on repeat until it becomes a part of the image that he’s drawing.…
At first glance, Cured plays like an ill-conceived Portlandia sketch: a food magazine solely about food preservation practices? Put a bird…
