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…
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock has been at the cutting edge of technology for many of his 82 years. Like his contemporary…
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…
It’s no surprise that the internet is straight. Its basic building blocks are binaries, its moguls are predominantly male, and…
Last summer, while browsing the fiction aisles at Powell’s Books in Portland, a fat black spine caught my attention. At…
“Graphic design must be seen as a discipline capable of generating meaning on its own terms without undue reliance on…
Letterform Loupe is our new column from the team at Letterform Archive, which takes a closer look at typographic design —…
Westenwind, a new font designed by Olga Umpeleva at the KABK TypeMedia master program in the Netherlands, grew from a…
Cita Press is a library and press devoted to curating, highlighting, publishing, and promoting works written by women. It pairs…
When I was finally diagnosed with a couple interrelated chronic illnesses last year, a lot of things that had never…
Earlier this month, Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed that his employer’s AI chatbot LaMDA became sentient. During an “interview,” LaMDA agreed…
From the family-knit cardigans of infancy, to the House of Sunny ‘fits of today’s Tik Tokers du’jour, society’s enduring love…
