Mimi Onuoha is an artist who works mostly with algorithms, data sets, and digital systems, but her best known work…
Netflix is keeping us awake. I’m not talking about its latest gameshow Awake: The Million Dollar Game, where contestants must…
This article is excerpted from the fifth issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on…
There’s a common refrain on Twitter that can be heard echoing across the feed any time there’s a big news…
One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in…
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“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
In May 2019, an assistant curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was sitting in a car with a number…
This roundtable interview was first published in Eye on Design Magazine, issue #05: Distraction. To many, social media and education…
It’s the middle of the workday in New York City and I’m watching a shaky phone video of a transit…
The UK graphic design collective Evening Class is incredibly organized. The online flyer for its event What Could a Union…
E Roon Kang lives and works in New York, where he operates the interdisciplinary design and research studio Math Practice,…
Elizabeth Carey Smith is a creative director whose focus is on furthering the overlap of New York’s type designers, art…
Rebecca Wright isn’t one to shy away from big questions. As co-founder of the publishing, curation, and design advocacy organization…
Nicole Killian is an artist and graphic designer whose work “investigates how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and…
As the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Gail Anderson (a 2008 AIGA Medalist) has once again…
Elizabeth White is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her work explores “social, psychological, and political themes including maintenance and self-preservation;…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
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…
With tax deadlines on the horizon, we’re shifting our attention—albeit, just slightly—away from type design and smart graphics, and towards…
Name: Ansage Designer: Alejandro Freitez Foundry: Sudtipos Release Date: January 2020 Back Story: A well-worn chestnut of wisdom in the…
Bernie Sanders’ campaign logo is one of the defining visual representations of socialism for many Americans, but look a little…
From our respective home offices, we’ve been scanning the web over the past few days to collect tips and resources…
Jaime Levy’s real name is not Jaime. She won’t tell me what her real name is, only that her parents…
In an episode of the beloved animated 1960s sci-fi sitcom The Jetsons, Mrs. Jetson decides that housework is becoming too…
Name: Bedow Head and Bedow Hand Designer: Bedow, along with Tor Weibull and Alexander Örn of type foundry Kanon Foundry: Kanon Backstory: When…
Somewhere along the long timeline of human existence, society began associating innovation with speed: faster cars, rapid test results, instant…
Dear reader, I’m up early this morning. I’m not a morning person, but if I’m up at 6 a.m. I…
For many extended families across the United Kingdom, 2016 became the year that we stopped talking to one another. Something…
YOU ARE IN THE FRONT YARD OF A LARGE ABANDONED VICTORIAN HOUSE. STONE STEPS LEAD UP TO A WIDE PORCH.…
Name: Finder Designers: Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye, and Zhang Miao Foundry: Black[Foundry] Release Date: January 2020 Back Story: Back…
We’re getting into holiday drinking season—the time when bar carts and refrigerators call for extra handsome bottles. Fortunately, this month’s…
Hello and welcome to Friday, when we bring you our weekly Design Diary, a collection of five projects that made…
Aficionados of film and design of the last 50 years are bound to know the name Pablo Ferro (a 2009…
Newsstands are fixtures of New York City life. Kiosks on sidewalks, street corners, and subway platforms are reliable destinations for…
Psst, have you heard? Eye on Design made a gossip magazine! Eye on Design #03 is packed with stories about…
Name: Pickle-Standard Designer: Benoît Bodhuin Foundry: BB-Bureau Release: October 2018 Back story: Belgium-based designer Benoît Bodhuin is known for his…
Insomnia and creativity are longstanding, tossing, turning bedfellows. Marcel Proust, Emily Brontë, and Walt Whitman all spoke about working through sleepless…
Ding dong! The weekend is finally here, and what better way to kick it all off than with our weekly…
It was the 1980s, and a strategic merger was underway. It wasn’t between BP and Standard Oil, or between BP…
