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…
For years, I’ve swooned at the thought of commissioning an oil painting of my rescue greyhound, The Turtleman*. I used…
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…
Colin Forbes, who passed away just a little more than a week ago, was a key part of the design…
Name: Exposure Designer: Federico Parra Barrios Foundry: 205TF Release Date: April 2022 Back Story: If you are not a recent…
When the first issue of Tradeswomen first appeared in subscribers’ mailboxes in 1980, they were “delighted,” said Molly Martin, its…
The face of biotech has no face at all. It doesn’t have a spine. It doesn’t have complex organs. Hell,…
When Claire and Pann Lim floated the idea of starting a magazine with their two children back in 2013, their…
Name: Timezone Designers: Elias Hanzer and Lucas Liccini Foundry: Hanzer Liccini Release Date: November 2021 Back Story: Berlin-based graphic design studio…
In many ways, we’re living in the golden age of graphic design histories. All over the world, designers, historians, and…
Founded in 2001 by Dutch editors Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom, Butt magazine spent the first decade of a…
It was the best of #DesignTwitter, it was the worst of #DesignTwitter, it was the age of wisdom, it was…
Happy hour is back, and we’ve got some excellent alcoholic branding to lift the winter doldrums—or at least forget about…
Our Weekend With series looks at the world through the eyes of a designer on their days off. Last time,…
Name: Garaje Designer: Thomas Huot-Marchand Foundry: 205TF Release Date: February 2020 Back Story: Thomas Huot-Marchand first started drawing Garaje 20…
The first three dimensions—length, height, and depth—are included on all topographical maps. The “fourth dimension,” or time, is also available…
Jason Ramirez didn’t always have grand creative ambitions. Growing up in Topeka, Kansas, the designer, illustrator, and current art director…
Last year, I wrote an article for Eye on Design that asked what decolonization means in the context of design.…
Between 2017 and 2018, Google produced a series of 24 short videos that saw digital designer Mustafa Kurtuldu interview a…
Name: Caserne Brewery typeface Designers: Montreal-based Caserne created the visual identity that spawned the font, while nearby foundry Coppers and Brasses is behind…
Last week, #DesignTwitter launched into a classic ethics question: Is it possible to separate an artist from their work? Designers…
