It’s a week before graduation at the California Institute of the Arts, and I’ve just arrived at the End of…
“The students and I have our fireside chats here,” says AIGA Medalist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville as she switches on an electric…
“Surface. Texture. Form. Line. Color. Only words, until an artist uses them.” “When you risk becoming an artist, you risk…
While diversity and inclusion might be ubiquitous terms in the mission statement of any progressive university, these words alone do…
Since 1995, in a former hosiery factory in the unassuming Swiss suburb Renens, the revered École cantonale d’art de Lausanne…
When James Goggin earned his Master’s in graphic design from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 1999, he was…
In anticipation of the 2016 AIGA Design Conference less than one month away (October 17-19 in Las Vegas; register by…
It’s around that time of the year when design students go back to school, getting set for another year of…
Designers are a well-meaning bunch. Over the years, we’ve listened to them tell us their plans to put an end…
There’s one oxymoron we keep coming back to: the fact that designers crave freedom, but, more often than not, love to work…
During the last few weeks in Berlin, the street-side cafés and bars usually filled with art student regulars have suddenly,…
In a world where “flat” web design is ever-present, it can be tough sometimes to tell the difference between a wireframe…
