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…
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…
If ever tangible proof were needed that Fela Kuti’s legacy lives on, look no further than his youngest son Seun…
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…
In 2015, a few things happened that moved menstruation from the margins and into the center of the cultural conversation.…
Name: Olympe Designer: Émilie Rigaud Foundry: A is for Release Date: February 2022 Back Story: French type designer Émilie Rigaud founded…
You might remember Gawker as an aughts-era blog with all the visual hallmarks of that moment’s web design trends: bright…
You’re walking through the grocery store after a long day of work and suddenly you’re confronted by a vegan burger…
In the last few years, monospaced fonts were suddenly making appearances in editorial and advertising design, showing up everywhere from…
If you take a quick look at Olivia Rodrigo’s documentary-film Getting Home 2 U, the cinematography of Euphoria’s second season,…
When Virginia Woolf first published her experimental novel Jacob’s Room in 1922, reviewers recoiled at the cover. Her older sister—the…
Name: “Shizzle” (Unofficially, that is. The typeface doesn’t technically have a name, but this is what TwoPoints.Net cofounder Martin Lorenz…
When the animated short film Wade opens to the stillness of a Kolkata ravaged by the forces of climate change,…
The visual design of television news has remained as busy as ever during coverage of the pandemic and protests over…
Last year, we interviewed Milton Glaser for the “Gossip” issue of Eye on Design magazine, during which he revealed family…
Like many mid-century design pioneers, George Him forged his career through the application of European modernist and avant-garde artistic ideas…
This is the third in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album…
Name: F37 Beckett Foundry: F37 Designer: Rick Banks Release Date: April 2020 Back Story: It’s not the most usual of beginnings for…
In the most iconic scene of The Devil Wears Prada, Andy (Anne Hathaway) nonchalantly dismisses two nearly identical blue belts…
For years I have been observing and writing about the rise of our digital identities—the increasing fidelity of them, along…
“Everything is in progress” was the curiously open-ended statement that heralded the launch of Future Fonts back in 2018. The…
