Familiar are the exquisite dips and curlicues of traditional Arabic calligraphy, but what is known of the rich history of…
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In Germany during the 1930s, there was just one lifestyle magazine that every young woman had to have. An essential…
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The poster for Ari Aster’s second feature film, the horror movie Midsommar, seems noticeably jarring for its genre. In the…
We hear time and again that the design “canon” needs a big shakeup—in design education, exhibitions, or simply in the…
Once you start, you can’t help but see them everywhere when it comes to the design and illustration world: the…
In 1955, the winding gulleys of Kolkata in India were awash with large posters and almost translucent paper flyers that…
It’s not always easy for designers to work with art, or with artists. As we’ve previously explored, there’s a fine…
