“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 op-ed is one of a three-part series of opinion pieces in which educators address the way design history has…
In 2014, graphic design student Sarah Elawad moved to Qatar to study at a VCUarts satellite school in the capital city…
For as long as they’ve both existed, design education and “real-world” professional design practice have been engaged in a funny…
Working across text and performance, with some complex diagrammatic illustrations thrown in to try and make sense of life, death,…
The environs around a visitor to the Midwest in winter can command a certain bleak outlook. Overcast skies, bare trees,…
Sixty years ago at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, a curious wall hanging in the fair’s decorative…
Name: Sväng Designer: Claes Nordenstam Developed by: Göran Söderström Foundry: Letters from Sweden Release Date: April 2019 Back Story: In…
For many of us, the intersection of brands and data brings to mind issues of privacy; it can stir up…
Plus, the third issue of The Native magazine, The Rebel Issue, is a triple threat; cute “Not Now” desktop icons…
From Twitter to Instagram, Patreon to Kickstarter, it’s never seemed simpler to build an audience and launch an indie magazine…
Sarah Boris is an award winning graphic designer and art director based in London, where since 2015 she has run…
You can tell a lot about a neighborhood through its letterforms—it’s often signs and storefronts that subtly give an area…
This year at AIGA’s Design Conference, industrial designer Ti Chang shared how she’s built her career around designing for social…
Name: Public Sans Designer: Dan Williams Organization/Foundry: Technology Transformation Services Release date: April 2019 Backstory: The seed for Public Sans…
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…
