We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! Around the same time…
Words by Jarrett Fuller
Published onOctober 19th, 2020
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! On the day of…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! When Stanley Kubrick set…
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…
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…
Writing about design is never just writing about design. Oftentimes, the language of design creeps into other parts of our lives—the…
It’s that time of year when we glance back at the last 12 months in an attempt to understand what…
Another year passed, another season of “best ofs” is upon us. It’s time to look back at the last 12…
In 2012, good kid, m.A.A.d city brought hip hop’s finest new storyteller to the attention of the masses. Kendrick Lamar’s…
QR codes have been the subject of various cycles of derision over the past 20 years, and yet, walk around…
Name: Carta Nueva Designer: My-Lan Thuong Foundry: Sharp Type Release Date: November 2020 Back Story: Type history 101: once upon a…
Carolina Laudon is a Swedish typographer and type designer living in Gothenburg. Laudon studied Fine Art in Painting (Gerlesborgsskolan), earned…
In 2001, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under the direction of architect Rem Koolhaas, published The Harvard…
Benedetta Crippa is an Italian designer living in Stockholm, where she works as lead designer at Stockholm Environment Institute, teaches…
Name: Hejira Foundry: Sudtipos Designer: Gastón Fuoco Release Date: October 2020 Back Story: Gastón Fuoco designed Hejira specifically to defy…
When Democrat Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate race in Georgia was forced into a runoff, his campaign changed up its social…
Abounding with warmth, character, diversity, irrepressible charm, and wit, the work of Seymour Chwast has always been the antithesis of…
A truly international designer, Pouya Ahmadi’s work has taken him all the way from his native Tehran, Iran, to Switzerland, and finally to Chicago, where…
Ahh, “authentic,” everyone’s favorite new buzz word. But before more ill-informed marketing spoils it for us all, let’s take a look back at the…
A mash-up of eclectic artists, the five-year anniversary poster for Boiler Room tells you everything you need to know about…
Welcome to Twofer Type Tuesday, where you can feast your eyes upon a pair of experimental typefaces created by Vincent Fileccia. Virginia is a…
You wouldn’t necessarily think a woman who owns her own company—especially an in-demand design studio that works with some of the brightest…
What do you do if you’re offered a well paid, even half-decent job straight out of art school? In an…
Post-school, it’s not often that you’re afforded an excuse to plumb the depths of a topic like color theory or…
Michael Ventura, founder of the creative agency Sub Rosa, is sitting in a conference room, a deck of eggplant-colored cards…
Every Friday we raise a glass to celebrate some of the best new boozy bottles to hit store shelves. Champlur,…
The most striking thing about the cover design of Simon Hanselmann’s One More Year is the shiny lenticular foil that highlights…