One afternoon last spring, I collected a bag of small stones from the dried out river in my local park.…
When the first issue of Tradeswomen first appeared in subscribers’ mailboxes in 1980, they were “delighted,” said Molly Martin, its…
On April 1, RISD welcomed Crystal Williams as its new president. Williams is a Black woman, a poet, and an…
What does it mean to design “normal” things for “normal” people? Western society defines certain individuals and communities as average…
In 1981, a design competition for children launched a road sign that would become one of the most ubiquitous images…
Spurred by the economic crisis of the coronavirus pandemic and social upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, independent publishers…
What does it mean to design for social change? For decades designers have tried to push the profession into more…
This past May, as footage of the uprisings around the nation and the world began to flood my social media…
Eda Levenson and Geneva White do not run a charity. They do not run an after-school program, or a mentorship…
Architectural notation, the precise language by which windows and doors become lines and arcs, typically has little use outside of…
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness.…
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine and online on October…
