You can tell a lot about a neighborhood through its letterforms—it’s often signs and storefronts that subtly give an area…

As much as designer Gere Kavanaugh is known, she’s known as a signifier of the California design aesthetic: bright, playful,…

For a flash in the 1990s, Magic Eye, the world’s most famous—and infamously frustrating—optical illusion, was everywhere. Posters bearing the…

With Brexit looming and all kinds of global strife taking center stage, there’s perhaps no better time for the first…

Code is a tool—a string of numbers, glyphs, and letters that when arranged in a particular order can be wielded…

“If I hear the phrase ‘Summer of Love’ one more time, I will scream,” says Louise Sandhaus from her design…

In Germany during the 1930s, there was just one lifestyle magazine that every young woman had to have. An essential…

Perhaps you’ve heard of Green Bean Casserole, the “homemade,” Pyrex-bound amalgamation of canned green beans, Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup, and…

In the early 1930s, Iwao Yamawaki and Michiko Yamawaki arrived at the gates of the Bauhaus in Dessau all the way…

Frederick Hammersley is best known as an abstract painter. A “hard-edge” painter, more precisely. The Hard-edge painters of the ’60s…

“Anni Albers is very much a designer’s artist,” says Priyesh Mistry, one of the curators of the Tate Modern’s vast retrospective…

Recently, #bauhaus overtook #brutalism as one of the most popular design and architecture hashtags on Instagram. Peruse through the associated…