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…
In the latest of our Under the Covers series looking at records and their design, we spoke to some of the…
When Archie Boston Jr., the nationally recognized art director, designer, educator, and author, talks about graphic design, he also talks…
Name: VTC Du Bois Designer: Tré Seals Foundry: Vocal Type Release date: June 2021 Back Story: For Tré Seals, history…
If you see someone walking down the sidewalk in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, wearing, say, well-worn Doc Martens and a canary yellow…
“For thousands of years, earth’s resources have been extracted by bodies, most of whom were not free,” reads one of…
Cheryl Holmes Miller is a graphic designer—a statement that’s true but not sufficient. Miller is also an advocate and activist.…
Name: Adelbrook Designer: Philip Lammert Foundry: Vibrant Types Release Date: July 2021 Back Story: Hamburg-based type designer Philip Lammert finds contradictions…
During the mid-twentieth century, perhaps no other American company exemplified technological achievement, business acumen, and good design better than IBM.…
How do you like your drinks? Sustainable? Functional? Merely hydrating? This month’s picks offer more than anyone really needs, but…
As gender-neutral pronouns become more commonplace in spoken language, they haven’t yet found a secure perch in written text. With…
For as long as non-designers have needed to create design-centric work, there have been tools and services that help them…
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
Depending on the day, the past year and a half feels like it’s been either a long summer or a…
Name: NaN Jaune Designer: Jérémy Landes Foundry: NaN.xyz Release Date: May 2021 Back Story: Back in 2016, NaN Jaune began as custom lettering for…
In April 2020, A/D/O—the design incubator-meets-community center-meets-café-meets-design shop—announced its impending closure ostensibly due to the pandemic. Since opening in 2017,…
There’s a quote, perhaps apocryphal, from Massimo Vignelli that you’ll sometimes hear from alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design…
What are you seeing? The ’90s are back. The 1890s, that is. Turn of the century inspired typefaces (we’re calling…
On first sight, Mantar is a jovial typeface family. High-contrast, serif-forward, wide-faced, with details that seem to jump from letter…
The day before Juneteenth was commemorated as a national holiday, recognizing for the first time, as a country, the day…
Social media has changed the way creators and visual artists think about representing their work. For many, Instagram, Behance, and…
In August 2014, a month before I became chair of the graphic design program at California College of the Arts,…
In an ocean of Squarespace sites and Behance portfolios, it can be easy to forget that there are limitless ways…
