Madeleine writes about art and design and is based in Berlin. She studied English literature at Cambridge University, and went on to complete an MA in art history at the Courtauld Institute. She is staff writer at AIGA's Eye on Design.
Questions of state and social attitudes towards gender and sexual violence have recently attracted widespread attention, spurred by everything from…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti had been practicing as a painter and taught drawing for seven years in Harare, Zimbabwe when she decided…
Data editor at The Guardian (U.S. edition) Mona Chalabi’s work straddles the written and the visual, analyzing and presenting information in…
“We called ourselves Offshore Studio because we’re in Switzerland. But we’re also outside of it,” says its co-founder Isabel Seiffert,…
A host of unlikely guests have materialized among the crammed white bookshelves lining Manhattan’s notorious cavern of artistic ephemera, Printed Matter.…
In the winter of 2009, two Swiss graphic design grads found themselves bundled together in a haphazardly furnished, shed-sized apartment…
I’ve spoken to many illustrators over the years, and I’ve listened to them describe their work to me in lots…
You can trace the ancestors of the characters drawn by cartoon wiz Jon Burgerman back to the artwork he created in…
I don’t remember ever having visited an exhibition of book design without experiencing what curators call the “Snow White effect”—an…
In a distant past prior to working at Sagmeister & Walsh, or his infamous Complements project (a collaboration with partner Leta…
Visitors to the first half of the documenta 14 program in Athens, Greece have wandered the streets with bewilderment while…
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