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…
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…
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,…
When most founders start talking to me about all the ways their business is so much more than just a…
Every Friday we raise a glass to celebrate some of the best new boozy bottles to hit store shelves. This…
As an editorial resident here at AIGA, I spend my time nosing around for interesting design-related goings on each week…
I don’t remember ever having visited an exhibition of book design without experiencing what curators call the “Snow White effect”—an…
Life in contemporary Western society comes with many luxuries. One oft-overlooked luxury: access to expressive typefaces. Unless you’re a graphic…
Time flies when you’re NB Studio. Nick Finney, the co-founder and creative director, is trying to recall how long they’ve…
Name: Exchange Designer: Tobias Frere-Jones Foundry: Frere-Jones Type Release Date: June 20, 2017 Back Story: Exchange was originally designed as a new text face…
Pop-Up Magazine challenges the idea of what a magazine can be, by doing its storytelling on the stage. Journalists perform their stories,…
A hugely powerful poster presents a sick, forlorn man in pyjamas, staring listlessly from his hospital bed. Slicing the image…
This is the second in a series of satirical pieces in which we invite our contributors to—lovingly, respectfully, but absolutely…