Zachary Petit is the managing editor of Eye on Design and a freelance writer.
Holly Ovenden was exhausted. Having graduated college with a degree in physical therapy, she’d spent four years working on the…
This week we’re running online for the first time six pieces from our six issues of Eye on Design magazine.…
Do you remember the exact moment you discovered graphic design? Darren Wall does. A self-described obsessive media consumer, as a…
As a kid, Thomas Colligan wasn’t exactly a voracious reader—but that didn’t stop him from voraciously consuming books. Growing up…
As a book-loving child raised in Northern Italy, when Elena Giavaldi was asked what she wanted to be when…
Joan Wong’s parents had a problem: They weren’t in the best school district in Brooklyn, and they wanted their daughter…
After she gave up her dreams of being a flight attendant at age three, Charlotte Strick knew she wanted a…
Pablo Delcan has a memory from his early teenage years: He was visiting his father, who was working in New…
The infinite freedom of the blank page has always been a bit of a cage for designer Jenny Volvovski. Growing…
For John Gall, one of the most revered book cover designers working today, it wasn’t a love of tomes and…
Elaine Ramos grew up without any knowledge of design—and perhaps even more surprisingly, she grew up in a house largely…
Janet Hansen could have wound up working in a number of fields outside of design. IT, like her father. Finance,…
