The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…
Ritu Ghiya is an artist, designer, and web developer. She helps design Sounds About Riso, a risograph fair founded by…
There’s a quote, perhaps apocryphal, from Massimo Vignelli that you’ll sometimes hear from alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design…
In August 2014, a month before I became chair of the graphic design program at California College of the Arts,…
In the latest of our Under the Covers series looking at records and their design, we looked at how how French…
About a year and a half ago, peaceful protests broke out across India against the discriminatory government policies–specifically, the National…
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds — Anthropologist Arturo Escobar’s powerful argument for reimagining…
Ken Garland, who died in May at the grand age of 92, was an enigmatic figure in the graphic design…
What does it mean to design “normal” things for “normal” people? Western society defines certain individuals and communities as average…
Like many people, Caroline Reid experienced a sudden and unwelcome drop in business when the pandemic hit the U.S. last…
One of the most enlightening, empowering, and transformative experiences I had as a design fellow at the Walker Art Center…
Hugh Francis has just over two months of payroll in the bank, and he doesn’t care who knows it. That’s…
