Working across text and performance, with some complex diagrammatic illustrations thrown in to try and make sense of life, death,…
However you organize it, a collection of sources and material—some form of archive—is a necessity in creative work. Some have…
In 2014, graphic design student Sarah Elawad moved to Qatar to study at a VCUarts satellite school in the capital city…
For as long as we have existed, humans have tried to make sense of color. Back when our limited color…
The body in movement has long inspired type designers. In 1926, the Czech dancer Milka Mayerová choreographed the alphabet as…
In Germany during the 1930s, there was just one lifestyle magazine that every young woman had to have. An essential…
Every medium has its canon. Graphic design, painting, and sculpture are all bolstered by great works that help set the…
Frederick Hammersley is best known as an abstract painter. A “hard-edge” painter, more precisely. The Hard-edge painters of the ’60s…
OBEY. BUY. DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY. Black and white, block capital text—bleak reminders of the domineering capitalist doctrine that lurks…
Despite the ever-increasing number of new independent magazines, there are a very few journals that focus smartly and seriously on…
Ah, late October. Pumpkins, skeletons, and waiting for daylight saving time to really kickstart the SAD. Halloween is but round…
Few brands boast such a rich visual heritage as Campari. Its archives shimmer with the sleek sophistication that only 20th…
