The design process is always the result of a negotiation. Design for and from a theater is no exception, reaching…
In July 2020, Briar Levit, a professor of graphic design at Portland State University, uploaded an early 20th century sign…
Six years ago, back in 2014, I had the chance to sit down with Enzo Mari at his Milanese home.…
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness.…
Spurred by the economic crisis of the coronavirus pandemic and social upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, independent publishers…
If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
Forest Young’s career has spanned an impressive range of disciplines and contexts. He was recently named Wolff Olins’s first Global…
Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages…
J. Dakota Brown studied graphic design at North Carolina State University and critical theory at the School of the Art…
David Jon Walker is an assistant professor of graphic design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, as well…
Kathleen Sleboda’s work traverses disciplines, often involving acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. Sleboda has been teaching at the…
There’s always been a certain mythology associated with California—that moving there somehow inherently holds the promise for limitless potential. Within…
I knew the names of Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie from the masthead of Chrysalis, the ’70s feminist cult magazine…
Tucked into a quiet corner of Orijit Sen’s studio lies a dog-eared copy of River of Stories, one of the…
This article is part of our exploration of design and psychedelia. Pick up a copy of Eye on Design #02,…
For the uninitiated, hardcore was a subgenre of punk that has since become most famed for its more political movements…
In 1920, Vladimir Lenin signed a decree that was to have a monumental effect on artists in post-revolutionary Russia. This…
In the latest of our Under the Covers series looking at records and their design, we spoke to some of the…
When Archie Boston Jr., the nationally recognized art director, designer, educator, and author, talks about graphic design, he also talks…
Name: VTC Du Bois Designer: Tré Seals Foundry: Vocal Type Release date: June 2021 Back Story: For Tré Seals, history…
If you see someone walking down the sidewalk in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, wearing, say, well-worn Doc Martens and a canary yellow…
“For thousands of years, earth’s resources have been extracted by bodies, most of whom were not free,” reads one of…
Cheryl Holmes Miller is a graphic designer—a statement that’s true but not sufficient. Miller is also an advocate and activist.…
Name: Adelbrook Designer: Philip Lammert Foundry: Vibrant Types Release Date: July 2021 Back Story: Hamburg-based type designer Philip Lammert finds contradictions…
During the mid-twentieth century, perhaps no other American company exemplified technological achievement, business acumen, and good design better than IBM.…
How do you like your drinks? Sustainable? Functional? Merely hydrating? This month’s picks offer more than anyone really needs, but…
As gender-neutral pronouns become more commonplace in spoken language, they haven’t yet found a secure perch in written text. With…
For as long as non-designers have needed to create design-centric work, there have been tools and services that help them…
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
Name: Antique Gothic Designer: Jean-Baptiste Levée/Production Type Foundry: Prototypo Release Date: October 2017 Back Story: Antique Gothic is your typical condensed sans serif—except for…
All Hallows’ Eve is upon us: the night when the souls of the dead return home and must be appeased.…
Umbrellas up! It’s raining letters… Hallelujah? That’s what I imagine those at Weltformat poster festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, are singing…
London-based publisher Hexus Press’ co-founder Thogdin Ripley talks us through five seminal design artefacts from around the dark, spooky labyrinth of…
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Design Diary, a collection of five fab projects from across the world that have impressed…
A month or so ago, we published an article about why we need to rethink the way we discuss the…
Big questions for big times: What makes a good design education? And what exactly will the designers of the future…
Name: Halyard Designers: Display by Joshua Darden; Text and Micro by Joshua Darden, Eben Sorkin, and Lucas Sharp Foundry: Darden Studio…
We held our first ever Eye on Design Conference last week, and with nearly 20 designers, illustrators, and artists joining us…
Look once. Then look again. Your eye won’t know where to rest at first—the compositions in this designer’s portfolio reject…
