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…
Colin Forbes, who passed away just a little more than a week ago, was a key part of the design…
Name: Exposure Designer: Federico Parra Barrios Foundry: 205TF Release Date: April 2022 Back Story: If you are not a recent…
When the first issue of Tradeswomen first appeared in subscribers’ mailboxes in 1980, they were “delighted,” said Molly Martin, its…
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…
The face of biotech has no face at all. It doesn’t have a spine. It doesn’t have complex organs. Hell,…
When Claire and Pann Lim floated the idea of starting a magazine with their two children back in 2013, their…
Name: Timezone Designers: Elias Hanzer and Lucas Liccini Foundry: Hanzer Liccini Release Date: November 2021 Back Story: Berlin-based graphic design studio…
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…
After living through 18 months of an ongoing pandemic, our social and professional interactions have significantly changed since “The Before…
Ah, the end of summer, but the beginning of so many other things! (Corduroy, spontaneous baking, early bedtimes.) Before we…
Name: Smoosh Designer: Tal Leming Foundry: Type Supply Release Date: September 2021 Back Story: Smoosh was born, appropriately, thanks to…
In December of 2009, just over a year after the U.S. government passed the $700 billion bank bailout, former Federal…
Exploring the creative applications of artificial intelligence is hardly a novel idea anymore. Artists and technologists have been collaborating for…
Name: MD Nichrome Designer: Rutherford Craze Foundry: Mass-Driver Release Date: August 2021 Back story: The design for MD Nichrome began…
Like most gatherings over the past year-and-a-half, design conferences have been relegated to virtual space. But now that social circles…
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…
