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. …
When editor and consultant Casey Lewis started her newsletter digest on youth culture, After School, she instinctively gravitated towards pastel…
One afternoon last spring, I collected a bag of small stones from the dried out river in my local park.…
Run by Richard Embray and Elinor Jansz, Four Corners Books is a London-based publishing house that seeks to bring art…
Joey Donatelli slides their glasses off and proudly holds them in front of the camera, as though bestowing an all-powerful…
It was Brian Eno who invented the term ‘scenius,’ which counters the myth of the lone genius and credits the…
Artwork. Advertisement. Encapsulation. Billboard. Brand. A book cover is many things — and the best ones tend to be all…
Name: Felfel Designer: Abdo Mohamed Foundry: Boharat Release Date: Initially 2021, but the font is still in progress Back Story: Independent type…
Recently, the Illinois Department of National Resources asked branding studio Span to “rebrand” a fish. The new miracle species that…
This article is an excerpt from Growing Up Underground, the new coming-of-age memoir by Steven Heller published by Princeton Architectural…
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…
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…
