It’s the middle of the workday in New York City and I’m watching a shaky phone video of a transit…
Once you start, you can’t help but see them everywhere when it comes to the design and illustration world: the…
As a child, a cat always became a bat. My name was not Maddy but Mubby. Stranger still, a dog…
This story is part of a series that explores the results of the 2019 Design Census. Read the first story,…
After my first day interning at a design studio in London one summer, I returned home on the verge of…
Name: Söhne Designer: Kris Sowersby Foundry: Klim Release Date: December 2019 Backstory: Söhne dates back to the first time Kris…
In a creative landscape awash with maximalism, “acid graphics,” and “ugly design”—all of which I personally love—sometimes you need something…
Gender hierarchies are deeply entrenched across the design industry, immediately apparent in agencies, universities, museums, and beyond. Last year we…
In January 1954, François Truffaut famously published a piece in French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema railing against the tired and anachronistic…
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the fairest of them all? Why, it’s you silly, Design Twitter! While this week…
We’ve seen it before: tech company launches print publication to build “brand awareness” and position itself as a leader in…
Mimi Onuoha is an artist who works mostly with algorithms, data sets, and digital systems, but her best known work…
In the past decade, the art world has come to embrace technology and design into its hallowed halls. It’s a…
There’s a common refrain on Twitter that can be heard echoing across the feed any time there’s a big news…
Do you remember the exact moment you discovered graphic design? Darren Wall does. A self-described obsessive media consumer, as a…
The cheerful pop-culture visuals of arcade games form a shared lingua franca for players worldwide, meant to guide them through…
We probably feel like this at the end of every year—knackered, cold, frantically struggling with/ignoring looming deadlines, and manically scanning…
