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…
Back in February, EoD’s Madeleine Morley spoke with designer Kimberly Varella about recent work she’d produced through her L.A.-based studio…
“In the ’90s, if you had any connection to the Beastie Boys, it meant you were cool…even if you weren’t.”…
Since graduating from SVA, designer Anthony Zukofsky has been on a whirlwind tour of some of the most desirable companies,…
Even if you think you don’t know Eric Yahnker, you know Eric Yahnker. That Abe Lincoln with cornrows? That’s him.…
A hugely powerful poster presents a sick, forlorn man in pyjamas, staring listlessly from his hospital bed. Slicing the image…
This is the second in a series of satirical pieces in which we invite our contributors to—lovingly, respectfully, but absolutely…
Around ten years ago, designer Dominic Hofstede witnessed the induction of veteran practitioners Alistair Morrison and Geoff Digby into the…
Every Friday we raise a glass to celebrate some of the best new boozy bottles to hit store shelves. This…
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of AIGA, the…
The most compelling typefaces are the ones that serve a purpose beyond the functionality or aesthetics of the letterforms themselves.…
Four sure signs you’re at a book launch: polite murmurings, air kisses, indecipherable canapés, and clinking glasses of bubbly. Four other signs:…
Michael Ventura, founder of the creative agency Sub Rosa, is sitting in a conference room, a deck of eggplant-colored cards…
Name: Coorg Kannada Family Designer: Ramakrishna Saiteja Foundry: Indian Type Foundry Release Date: Pending Back Story: 23-year-old Saiteja of Bangalore, India, is this year’s Society of…
Visitors to the first half of the documenta 14 program in Athens, Greece have wandered the streets with bewilderment while…
The origin of that most charming glyph—the ampersand—can be traced back to Roman times and the Latin word et, meaning “and.”…
Growing up in Lebanon, Nadine Chahine was never an artistic child, but as she got older her creative talents emerged…
As an editorial resident here at AIGA, I spend heaps of time on the internet scouring social media and websites for the…
