Once the first decade of professional life has passed by, it’s easy to feel that a chosen (or perhaps stumbled…
I dream of that graffiti I saw. In the dream it glowed right thru a wall. Because we learn to…
A few weekends ago I found myself standing among a crowd of mannequins, transfixed by a strobing barrage of images…
A host of unlikely guests have materialized among the crammed white bookshelves lining Manhattan’s notorious cavern of artistic ephemera, Printed Matter.…
I don’t remember ever having visited an exhibition of book design without experiencing what curators call the “Snow White effect”—an…
A hugely powerful poster presents a sick, forlorn man in pyjamas, staring listlessly from his hospital bed. Slicing the image…
Visitors to the first half of the documenta 14 program in Athens, Greece have wandered the streets with bewilderment while…
Post-school, it’s not often that you’re afforded an excuse to plumb the depths of a topic like color theory or…
In 2014, the V&A Museum in London held a solo retrospective of the illustrator Barbara Nessim, a show that was…
Two years ago at the Pérez Art Museum in Miami, the curators of this year’s Whitney Biennial were handed a…
When a designer works with contemporary art, and the artists who make it, what is her role? Where is the…
In an art museum, graphic design usually takes a back seat. It’s the practical cousin to the main attraction; the wayfinding arrow…
