Restaurant branding as we think of it today, with its cookbooks, T-shirts, and Bic Clic pens, can be traced back…
In 2017, Facebook began rolling out a series of new illustrations to accompany content throughout the site. The illustration system,…
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. What’s a week…
The first three dimensions—length, height, and depth—are included on all topographical maps. The “fourth dimension,” or time, is also available…
“Everything is in progress” was the curiously open-ended statement that heralded the launch of Future Fonts back in 2018. The…
Dark patterns are as old as the internet itself. For over 30 years, the web has served as a breeding…
This piece is part of a series that looks at the past year of protests—in Hong Kong, Beirut, Delhi, and…
This piece is part of a series that looks at the past year of protests—in Hong Kong, Beirut, Delhi, and across…
Protest movements shift minds long before they lead to action. This is by nature and design. The welling up of…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! Sometimes the design scene…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
While diversity and inclusion might be ubiquitous terms in the mission statement of any progressive university, these words alone do…
Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In…
While its name suggests a grandiose collective occupying its own impressive brownstone office, in fact the Office of Culture and…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
Last year, I wrote an article for Eye on Design that asked what decolonization means in the context of design.…
Last August, Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic from Europe to the US by solar-powered boat, with the Fridays for the…
In the United States, the presence of the universal recycling icon on a product might lead an unassuming consumer to…
As designers, the work we create can unknowingly perpetuate certain ideologies that have destructive consequences. One of the more obvious…
Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…
One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in…
Mariana Amatullo’s teaching and design practice sits at the intersection of design, design management, and social innovation—one of her primary…
In 1996 while on his hospital sickbed, Huang Hua Cheng was eagerly completing two final projects. The first was his…
Name: F37 Caslon Foundry: F37 Designer: Rick Banks Release Date: November 2020 Back Story: F37 Caslon is, as the name suggests,…
Designing for clients such as the Museum of Modern Art, AIGA, Knoll International, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale…
The ossified binary of climate change discourse in the United States has been grievously fractured by reality. Out has spilled…
Welcome to Spotted, Eye on Design’s column that turns an eye on the styles and graphic trends you’re seeing everywhere.…
Name: Lektorat Designer: Florian Fecher Foundry: TypeTogether Release Date: October 2020 Back Story: Many a design student dreams of producing a senior…
2020 was tough. Between a global pandemic, a divisive election, and rising racial tensions, it sometimes felt like the year…
Writing about design is never just writing about design. Oftentimes, the language of design creeps into other parts of our lives—the…
It’s that time of year when we glance back at the last 12 months in an attempt to understand what…
Another year passed, another season of “best ofs” is upon us. It’s time to look back at the last 12…
In 2012, good kid, m.A.A.d city brought hip hop’s finest new storyteller to the attention of the masses. Kendrick Lamar’s…
QR codes have been the subject of various cycles of derision over the past 20 years, and yet, walk around…
Name: Carta Nueva Designer: My-Lan Thuong Foundry: Sharp Type Release Date: November 2020 Back Story: Type history 101: once upon a…
Carolina Laudon is a Swedish typographer and type designer living in Gothenburg. Laudon studied Fine Art in Painting (Gerlesborgsskolan), earned…
In 2001, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under the direction of architect Rem Koolhaas, published The Harvard…
Benedetta Crippa is an Italian designer living in Stockholm, where she works as lead designer at Stockholm Environment Institute, teaches…
Name: Hejira Foundry: Sudtipos Designer: Gastón Fuoco Release Date: October 2020 Back Story: Gastón Fuoco designed Hejira specifically to defy…
