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…
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…
David Jon Walker is an assistant professor of graphic design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, as well…
The days are getting longer, the ground drier. Picnic season is upon us, and perhaps more than any other spring,…
Kathleen Sleboda’s work traverses disciplines, often involving acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. Sleboda has been teaching at the…
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…
In 2018, the musician and writer Claire L. Evans began cataloguing examples of an increasingly ubiquitous style of editorial illustration…
