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,…
In the latest of our Under the Covers series looking at seminal records and their design, we speak with seminal…
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…
Earth Day doesn’t have an official visual identity, simply because it has had so many over the years. For the…
“We had the first lockdown on the 13th of March, and I think I sent both posters to print on…
Name: Logic Monospace Designer: Jeremy Mickel Foundry: MCKL Release Date: Fall 2020 Back Story: Mixing technical precision, typewriter fetishization, and…
In July 2020, Briar Levit, a professor of graphic design at Portland State University, uploaded an early 20th century sign…
Once you start, you can’t help but see them everywhere when it comes to the design and illustration world: the…
Welcome back to Happy Hour, the time of the month where we take a moment to admire the best in…
Plus, a cute Matisse-leaning festival identity, Warriors studio’s identity for Graphic Design Festival Scotland 2019, and new branding for Duolingo.…
Welcome to Spotted, Eye on Design’s new column that turns an eye (ahem) on the styles and graphic trends you’re…
This is the first installment in a series of articles that each focus on a summer school, residency, or alternate…
Very often, the last thing that creative people want to concern themselves with is the nuances of copyright law. Determining…
Reckon you’re a hip, young, variable thing—spontaneous and wild—but really, deep down, you’re an old, Modernist soul that likes everything…
For some people their introduction to “shamanism” is during a spring break trip gone bad that leaves them barfing into…
Plus, a cinematic graduate show and growing documentation of women in type design. For more along these lines (and so…
When I arrived to Berlin at the start of this year, Prem Krishnamurthy’s collaborative residency had just come to a…
