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…
At the end of February, I was called out as generalist on Twitter. The accusation—it could only be that—made my…
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…
The act of voting has never felt so critical. With accusations of rigged elections, voter fraud, machine malfunctions, and vote…
For many extended families across the United Kingdom, 2016 became the year that we stopped talking to one another. Something…
It would seem that the development of a strong campaign identity, and intuitively, an associated political identity, would be extremely…
Protest movements shift minds long before they lead to action. This is by nature and design. The welling up of…
It was the fall of 1852 and school was in session for a lucky group of women who were invited…
I started following @broobs.psd on Instagram on May 1, International Workers Day, after I saw several friends sharing a poster…
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…
You’ve probably seen it a dozen times: Tom Cruise waves his hands in front of a blank, glassy screen, and…
“Designed to be deleted” dating app Hinge is on a quest to get to know me on a level that other apps…
“It isn’t hard to lose sight of the bigger picture for the things we help build: How could it be…
Our Weekend With series looks at the world through the eyes of a designer on their days off. Last time,…
“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…
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…
Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…
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,…
Around the same time every year, half-way through the Spring semester, just as the pull of Summer begins, my students…
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness.…
Japanese-born educator and designer Takenobu Igarashi’s 20-year creative career brought an architectural understanding of form and space to the world…
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…