When Lesley Carter*, 26, first saw the salaries listed in the Graphic Design Salary Transparency Spreadsheet in January 2020, she…
Two things about capitalism: graphic design is totally bound up with it; and it really has to end. You won’t…
In an episode of the beloved animated 1960s sci-fi sitcom The Jetsons, Mrs. Jetson decides that housework is becoming too…
In the United States, the presence of the universal recycling icon on a product might lead an unassuming consumer to…
This op-ed was collaboratively penned by Design Action Collective and Partner & Partners. Design Action Collective is a cooperative design…
The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…
In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams.…
Beatriz González eschews labels like “pop artist” and “political artist,” which must be tiresome since most people’s first reaction to…
There’s a quote, perhaps apocryphal, from Massimo Vignelli that you’ll sometimes hear from alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design…
Code is a tool—a string of numbers, glyphs, and letters that when arranged in a particular order can be wielded…
I met Bahia Shehab about a year ago at a conference on contemporary Arab graphic design in New York. A…
The best fashion magazines are often the ones that transport readers to other worlds. It’s not just about the clothes…
Today, what you watch can say a lot about who you are. In our era of Peak TV, you can…
For the organizers of Afrophon’, a recent art book fair in LUMA Arles, France centering contemporary independent publishing from the…
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…
In 1966, Scott Paper Co., an American company that made a range of paper products, released an advertisement for their…
Like Go-Gurt before it, the playful ethos of olive oil brand Graza, which launched earlier this year, is defined by…
Café Royal Books is a one-man print archive of culture, community, and social change based in Southport, UK. This impressive…
You probably don’t need me to tell you that the publishing world is a tough business. While the internet —…
Name: Good Girl Designer: Marion Bisserier Foundry: Type Department Release Date: July 2022 Back Story: We don’t often run ‘sequels’…
Designers aren’t created in a vacuum. They’re shaped by their environments and the people around them, and it’s through mentorship…
When you work at a print publication, it’s easy to get fatigued by years of conversations about the death of…
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…
After months of data analysis and research, the results of the 2019 Design Census are here. Some of the information…
