If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
There’s a quote, perhaps apocryphal, from Massimo Vignelli that you’ll sometimes hear from alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design…
What are you seeing? The ’90s are back. The 1890s, that is. Turn of the century inspired typefaces (we’re calling…
Hugh Francis has just over two months of payroll in the bank, and he doesn’t care who knows it. That’s…
Neville Brody is a journalist’s dream. He has a well-honed knack for wryly provocative, headline-ready takes on the design industry…
For a flash in the 1990s, Magic Eye, the world’s most famous—and infamously frustrating—optical illusion, was everywhere. Posters bearing the…
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
For the last few years, it seemed a new article, Twitter thread, or video essay would pop up on the…
I first encountered The Fence in a small store stuffed with magazines of every variety. The corner of the first…
Gustavo Piqueira will make you wholly rethink book design—and, well, books at large. After all, the enigmatic proprietor of Casa…
As another tough year ends and a new year begins, we wanted to look to the future with an optimism…
With the year drawing to a close, the EoD editors were curious about what personal revelations different creatives have experienced…
Over the past few years, what’s unusual has become the norm in packaging design for consumer goods. Custom fonts, characters,…
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs who was interested in graphic design, the design section of my local…
Regardless of whether you’re a seasoned Eye on Design reader, you’re new to the site, or you only *occasionally* stop…
With the year drawing to a close, the EoD editors were curious about what personal revelations different creatives experienced in…
I remember the first time I bought a hard copy of The Paris Review. I was at a sleek coffee…
Ruthless as asking a parent to disclose which child they love most, we pressed a dozen typeface designers around the…
Geometry, clarity, functionality, and a deliberate lack of ornamentation. These are the ideas typically associated with Bauhaus typography. Famously, students…
