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,…
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…
Two months ago, a wave of news coverage around NFTs began to crest across niche art blogs to the New…
There’s something alluring about a clear glass bottle. It says: Nothing to hide here! I am not subject to the…
“Well, presumably the message is for the media. Get it?” —KTVU-2 News There is a conceptual performance by Ant Farm—that…
I met Bahia Shehab about a year ago at a conference on contemporary Arab graphic design in New York. A…
Industry surveys are, by their very nature, a snapshot in time. Pull up the questionnaire, and fill it out. What…
Name: Altform Text Designer: Mark Bloom Foundry: CoType Foundry Release Date: March 2021 Back Story: Mark Bloom launched CoType Foundry in October 2019,…
Open up a newspaper, survey your movie options on Netflix, scroll through Instagram—pick any particularly Pandemic-suited pastime—and you’ll no doubt…
Through the open door of a storefront in Manhattan’s Chinatown last October, you may have spied a long white table…
Name: Helvetica Now Designer: Charles Nix Foundry: Monotype Release Date: April 2019 Back story: Yes, yes, it’s a rule that…
“The term ‘weekend’ is pretty hollow nowadays, because the week doesn’t really end,” says Sander Ettema, late on a Saturday…
Also in this week’s five hot creative picks, a speculative design project that addresses “microaggressive language towards Eurasian individuals,” a…
Spring has sprung, and to celebrate, it’s another round of Happy Hour. We’ve got four beautiful brews for you to…
Sat in a dark lecture hall one evening at the St. Bride’s Foundation in London, editor and founder of D&B…
Do your part—take the 2019 Design Census. Tell your friends. Spread the word. Ten years ago, a senior designer could…
Making a magazine is a lot of fun. It’s also a helluva lot of work. There’s the stuff you see—the…
Name: Texel Designer: Simon Bent/studio-io Foundry: Metis Foundry Release Date: December 2018 Back Story: Texel began life in Melbourne’s studio-io as a branding…
As a kid, Thomas Colligan wasn’t exactly a voracious reader—but that didn’t stop him from voraciously consuming books. Growing up…
