The cover art of Autobahn has become one of Kraftwerk’s most recognizable motifs, but the famous white-on-blue convergence lines where…
It’s always interesting to see how yesterday’s imagined futures compare to today’s realities. At a time when the digital sphere…
In January 1954, François Truffaut famously published a piece in French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema railing against the tired and anachronistic…
This article is excerpted from the sixth issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on…
Wedged between white paper folders at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT) archive, there’s a curiously emphatic black binder coated…
Code is a tool—a string of numbers, glyphs, and letters that when arranged in a particular order can be wielded…
In the early 1930s, Iwao Yamawaki and Michiko Yamawaki arrived at the gates of the Bauhaus in Dessau all the way…
In 1920, Vladimir Lenin signed a decree that was to have a monumental effect on artists in post-revolutionary Russia. This…
In Germany during the 1930s, there was just one lifestyle magazine that every young woman had to have. An essential…
In the 1920s and ’30s, the New Typography movement spearheaded by the likes of Jan Tschichold, Karel Teige, Herbert Bayer,…
“Anni Albers is very much a designer’s artist,” says Priyesh Mistry, one of the curators of the Tate Modern’s vast 2019…
