The design process is always the result of a negotiation. Design for and from a theater is no exception, reaching…
In July 2020, Briar Levit, a professor of graphic design at Portland State University, uploaded an early 20th century sign…
Six years ago, back in 2014, I had the chance to sit down with Enzo Mari at his Milanese home.…
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness.…
Spurred by the economic crisis of the coronavirus pandemic and social upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, independent publishers…
If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
Forest Young’s career has spanned an impressive range of disciplines and contexts. He was recently named Wolff Olins’s first Global…
Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages…
J. Dakota Brown studied graphic design at North Carolina State University and critical theory at the School of the Art…
David Jon Walker is an assistant professor of graphic design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, as well…
Kathleen Sleboda’s work traverses disciplines, often involving acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. Sleboda has been teaching at the…
There’s always been a certain mythology associated with California—that moving there somehow inherently holds the promise for limitless potential. Within…
I knew the names of Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie from the masthead of Chrysalis, the ’70s feminist cult magazine…
Tucked into a quiet corner of Orijit Sen’s studio lies a dog-eared copy of River of Stories, one of the…
This article is part of our exploration of design and psychedelia. Pick up a copy of Eye on Design #02,…
For the uninitiated, hardcore was a subgenre of punk that has since become most famed for its more political movements…
In 1920, Vladimir Lenin signed a decree that was to have a monumental effect on artists in post-revolutionary Russia. This…
Podcasts are everywhere and nowhere. Unlike a book you might pass in a shop window or a song you might…
When you read the words “Kinfolk made a parenting magazine”, a certain image might come to mind: A mom…
Name: Action Text Designer: Erik van Blokland Foundry: Commercial Type Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Here’s the thing: the attention span of…
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds — Anthropologist Arturo Escobar’s powerful argument for reimagining…
Graphic design history is, generally speaking, a history of professional practice. In text books, at conferences, and for college courses,…
Ken Garland, who died in May at the grand age of 92, was an enigmatic figure in the graphic design…
We think Chicago based bookstore Inga offers some of the most interesting graphic design titles out there, and we’re always…
When trying to understand how cities work – how they develop over time and how their social lives have come…
The idea of crowdfunding books on design is no longer a new concept. Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter has…
Rich color is such a common feature of beverage packaging (and really, all kinds of packaging) these days that it’s…
Name: Faubourg Designer: Marie Boulanger, with creative and technical guidance from Neil Summerour Foundry: Positype Release Date: April 2021 Back…
“Why another graphic design magazine?” asked the cover of the first issue of Dot Dot Dot, published in April 2000.…
A year into the pandemic, many of us are longing to do what once might have seemed mundane: leaf through…
Name: Outward Designer: Raoul Audouin Foundry: Velvetyne Release Date: March 2021 Back Story: When Amsterdam-raised graphic designer Raoul Audouin moved…
In the week following the tragic shootings in Atlanta, and in the months beforehand amid a wave of violent attacks…
There’s a Burger King near my parent’s house in Newark, New Jersey with an oddly shaped drive-thru that positions cars…
One of my favorite pieces by the artist Shannon Ebner is ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK, a work that comprises four flickering…
The days are getting longer, the ground drier. Picnic season is upon us, and perhaps more than any other spring,…
This piece was originally published in 2019 in Eye on Design magazine’s “Worth” issue. It has been updated to reflect…
At the beginning of 2021, type designer and typographer Julius Hui launched a crowdfunding campaign for Ku Mincho, a Ming-style…
