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 looked at how how French…
Throughout the last decade, the nonprofit and branding universes have intersected to the point where it’s no longer surprising to…
Air raid sirens echoed through the streets of Belgrade. Olivera Stojadinović was designing fonts. It was 1999, and the NATO-initiated…
Homie House Press is an independent photo book publisher based out of Baltimore that seeks to “hold space for and…
Did you know that La Croix was founded 40 years ago in Wisconsin? If you squint a little, you can…
Name: Brik Designer: Michael Bagnardi Foundry: TDF/BurnType Release Date: June 2021 Back Story: Sometimes, you just have to kill your…
Zara Arshad is a researcher, curator and design historian who specializes in 20th and 21st-century material and visual culture from…
About a year and a half ago, peaceful protests broke out across India against the discriminatory government policies–specifically, the National…
When the pandemic hit and museums and galleries closed their doors, many were forced to quickly adapt their programming to…
Name: Gravity Designer: Robert Janes Foundry: Dinamo Release Date: Around October 2021 (though can be downloaded by designers on request…
A book cover has a challenging job. Not only must it represent the depth of knowledge between its pages, but…
Podcasts are everywhere and nowhere. Unlike a book you might pass in a shop window or a song you might…
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…
“Weekend With” is a new series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their…
Ding dong! The weekend is finally here, and what better way to kick it all off than with our weekly…
If there’s one thing we’ve learned this year in media, it’s that real-deal reporting is becoming something of a precious…
