This is my favorite line ever uttered in one of those flipping-through-the-portfolio presentations that designers love to give: “Only a…
Let me take you back, briefly, to an uncomfortable time when you had fickle skin, fickle friends, and a crisis…
It’s safe to say that we’ve reached critical mass on the whole built-for-Instagram pop-up trend. The world may not need another…
It’s easy to consider scripty, hand-rendered lettering and gentle color-pencil illustrations as sort of wishy-washy, maybe a little twee. “Girly,”…
For as long as we have existed, humans have tried to make sense of color. Back when our limited color…
There’s a lot of power inherent in the language we use and how we choose to use it. It’s a…
The body in movement has long inspired type designers. In 1926, the Czech dancer Milka Mayerová choreographed the alphabet as…
Name: Zoo Designer: Quentin Coulombier for Blaze Type Release Date: February 2019 Back Story: Four years ago, Quentin Coulombier, a current ECAL student, was…
Here’s my message for those of you who think the robot revolution isn’t going to change the design industry: think…
“If I hear the phrase ‘Summer of Love’ one more time, I will scream,” says Louise Sandhaus from her design…
Online, things happen quickly. It’s rare to feel any long-lasting sentiment after a trending tweet spins around the world—we’re often…
We often hear people saying that they wish they could work with typefaces designed by women, but they have trouble…
