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…
The face of biotech has no face at all. It doesn’t have a spine. It doesn’t have complex organs. Hell,…
When the first issue of Tradeswomen first appeared in subscribers’ mailboxes in 1980, they were “delighted,” said Molly Martin, its…
In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams.…
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 Germany during the 1930s, there was just one lifestyle magazine that every young woman had to have. An essential…
“If I hear the phrase ‘Summer of Love’ one more time, I will scream,” says Louise Sandhaus from her design…
In the early ’70s, artist, publisher, and activist Raja Dhale published a pocket-sized magazine called Chakravarty for thirteen consecutive days. …
I recently invented a skin-care oil that is guaranteed to make you look 20 years younger. It is a revolutionary…
Long before higher education in art and design was within reach for me, and before my imagination stretched to even…
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…
What do you do when you’ve secured your legacy as one of the great creative minds of the 20th century?…
It is safe to say that for anyone who grew up in India in the decades following the 1950s, Air-India’s…
Jack Self looks both relieved… and daunted. His Kickstarter campaign for the Real Review membership community has met its funding…
Name: Silvana Designer: Siri Lee Lindskrog of Formal Settings Foundry: Blaze Type Release Date: September 13 2022 Back Story: Siri…
This interview was originally published in Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, a new book published…
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…
In 1966, Scott Paper Co., an American company that made a range of paper products, released an advertisement for their…
“We’ve had enough!” “The revolution is female!” “Fuck PiS!” These are some of the chants resounding through the streets and…
Chronology is so ubiquitous that it seems almost natural. Human beings age and die, which means we experience linear duration…
Eda Levenson and Geneva White do not run a charity. They do not run an after-school program, or a mentorship…
Name: Maxi Designer: Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, and Andree Paat Foundry: Dinamo Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Maxi was one…
This is the fifth in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album…
Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…
Architectural notation, the precise language by which windows and doors become lines and arcs, typically has little use outside of…
K-pop encompasses a lot more than just the common label of popular music from South Korea. It’s an entire industry,…
Around the same time every year, half-way through the Spring semester, just as the pull of Summer begins, my students…
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness.…
