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,…
“Why another graphic design magazine?” asked the cover of the first issue of Dot Dot Dot, published in April 2000.…
Name: Immortel Designer: Clément Le Tulle-Neyret Foundry: 205TF Release Date: April 2021 Back Story: Immortel, the first retail typeface by Paris-based…
What does it mean to design “normal” things for “normal” people? Western society defines certain individuals and communities as average…
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…
In 2016, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired 176 miniature drawings of faces, objects, and abstract places,…
We ask the world’s top designers and illustrators to answer 13 questions and create a visual response to one of…
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Design Diary, a collection of five projects from across the world that have impressed us…
It’s that time of the month again when we close our work email and crack open some exceptionally well-designed beverages.…
As you may have noticed, there’s a growing focus on inclusion in the tech industry. Specifically, there’s a rise in…
A few years back, as independent book cover designers Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein were discussing their work at Cranbrook…
A face, masked by confetti. A line of type, pulling your eye into focus. A photograph, cropped in exactly the…
Name: Angus Designer: Elliott Amblard Foundry: Black[Foundry] Release Date: April 2018 Back Story: Angus is a rounded, multiplexed sans serif whose letters…
Each year, AIGA is responsible for doling out the five most prestigious awards in the graphic design community: the AIGA…
Nobody said it was going to be easy. Sure, as a design student you might dream of finally escaping the…
