If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
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…
Hugh Francis has just over two months of payroll in the bank, and he doesn’t care who knows it. That’s…
Neville Brody is a journalist’s dream. He has a well-honed knack for wryly provocative, headline-ready takes on the design industry…
For a flash in the 1990s, Magic Eye, the world’s most famous—and infamously frustrating—optical illusion, was everywhere. Posters bearing the…
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
There was a time, around 2013–2016, when the most experimental magazine in the world wasn’t some Berlin fashion zine that…
On a recent weekend afternoon, I found myself in my neighborhood grocery store contemplating a wall of beer. This section…
In 2017, Bon Appetit launched a spinoff website, Healthyish, centered around an ethos that, in its words, “sums up the…
When Democrat Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate race in Georgia was forced into a runoff, his campaign changed up its social…
In 2001, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under the direction of architect Rem Koolhaas, published The Harvard…
“Cae Sal” started with a video. It was 2018, and Molly Baz’s husband had gifted her a pair of Nike…
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…
Close your eyes and let me whisper “scent branding” into your waiting ear. What exactly does that phrase conjure? You…
Name: Remix Stencil Designer: Ran Zheng Foundry: Ran Design Release Date: January 2022 Back Story: Designer Ran Zheng has called…
I don’t remember where my locker was or why I found it funny to pick a radio jingle for The…
You’ve seen it before: an isolated medicine cabinet, filled with a range of beautifully packaged products, photographed head-on in front…
Name: Almoneda Designer: Alejandro Santos Foundry: Sudtipos Release date: January 2022 Back Story: Santos found inspiration for his typeface near…
The best fashion magazines are often the ones that transport readers to other worlds. It’s not just about the clothes…
My attraction to graphic design started with comic books covers. Like a lot of artistic comic nerds, my pre-teen friends…
Welcome to Form Factor, our column exploring the intersection of packaging, branding, and culture. When skincare brand Soft Services launched…
In 2016, the artist Deborah Roberts created “Pluralism Series,” a series of prints that, borrowing the aesthetic of a Microsoft…
In 2010, I curated a selection of Ed Fella’s famous flyers, created “after the fact”—as he put it—for his own…
The art of symmetry is a mathematical one. In its purest form it represents balance, from weights on a scale…
Design does not exist in a vacuum. We are constantly and simultaneously surrounded by textures, contours, smells, sights, and sounds.…
This is part I of the Processing oral history. Read part II here. Computers and design have long been intertwined.…
The following is an adapted excerpt from Briar Levit’s new book, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design…
Name: Occupant Oldstyle Designer: Cyrus Highsmith Foundry: Occupant Fonts Release Date: September 2021 Back Story: Highsmith describes Occupant Oldstyle as…
This op-ed was collaboratively penned by Design Action Collective and Partner & Partners. Design Action Collective is a cooperative design…
So much of Sylvia Abernathy’s life and work is lost to history. An activist and graphic designer, Abernathy first appears…
Fall has fallen upon us. As the tempo and temperature of social gatherings change, the snap of a pull tab…
Name: Compact Black Designer: Yevgeniy Anfalov Foundry: Kyiv Type Foundry (KTF) Release Date: July 2021 Back Story: KTF, a new…
Herbert Bayer’s name is perhaps most closely associated with the Bauhaus—he was a student at the school and later a…
During a quick scene in The French Dispatch, Hermès Jones, a magazine illustrator played by Jason Schwartzman, gets an earful…
If you’re over 25, your experience with handwriting is probably very different from what is being taught in schools today.…