Since opening shop in 2009, Zurich-based independent foundry Grilli Type has quietly built a reputation for expertly drawn contemporary designs.…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! When Stanley Kubrick set…
Beatriz González eschews labels like “pop artist” and “political artist,” which must be tiresome since most people’s first reaction to…
Chronology is so ubiquitous that it seems almost natural. Human beings age and die, which means we experience linear duration…
To deem [dēm], is to regard or consider something in a specified way; to make relevant. This is precisely the…
Familiar are the exquisite dips and curlicues of traditional Arabic calligraphy, but what is known of the rich history of…
There was a time, around 2013–2016, when the most experimental magazine in the world wasn’t some Berlin fashion zine that…
On a recent weekend afternoon, I found myself in my neighborhood grocery store contemplating a wall of beer. This section…
In 2017, Bon Appetit launched a spinoff website, Healthyish, centered around an ethos that, in its words, “sums up the…
When Democrat Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate race in Georgia was forced into a runoff, his campaign changed up its social…
In 2001, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under the direction of architect Rem Koolhaas, published The Harvard…
“Cae Sal” started with a video. It was 2018, and Molly Baz’s husband had gifted her a pair of Nike…
Forest Young’s career has spanned an impressive range of disciplines and contexts. He was recently named Wolff Olins’s first Global…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages…
Saki Mafundikwa is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), a graphic design and new…
E Roon Kang lives and works in New York, where he operates the interdisciplinary design and research studio Math Practice,…
I walk out of the Javits Center wearing my vaccine sticker like a medal. People are looking at me, I…
“ο καλύμνιος σφουγγαράς ψιθύρισε πως θα βουτήξει χωρίς να διστάζει” “the Kalymnos sponge-diver whispered that he would dive without hesitation”…
Name: Norbert Designer: Philipp Neumeyer Foundry: TypeMates Release Date: January 2021 Back story: In 2016, Phillipp Neumeyer was smitten by some gorgeous metal…
Like many people, Caroline Reid experienced a sudden and unwelcome drop in business when the pandemic hit the U.S. last…
One of the most enlightening, empowering, and transformative experiences I had as a design fellow at the Walker Art Center…
Hugh Francis has just over two months of payroll in the bank, and he doesn’t care who knows it. That’s…
A few years ago, a friend of Cherise Lavah’s told the self-taught designer she should try freelancing on Fiverr. It’d…
Part 1: Can I Be An Artist Here? I’m an artist working as a graphic designer. There’s a blurry boundary…
In the latest of our Under the Covers series looking at records and their design, we speak with legendary German…
Two months ago, a wave of news coverage around NFTs began to crest across niche art blogs to the New…
There’s something alluring about a clear glass bottle. It says: Nothing to hide here! I am not subject to the…
“Well, presumably the message is for the media. Get it?” —KTVU-2 News There is a conceptual performance by Ant Farm—that…
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…
