Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
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In 1981, a design competition for children launched a road sign that would become one of the most ubiquitous images…
If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
In 2018, the musician and writer Claire L. Evans began cataloguing examples of an increasingly ubiquitous style of editorial illustration…
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The past year has felt like the highest-budget sci-fi movie ever made: rioting mobs swarmed the US Capitol, a deadly…
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Abounding with warmth, character, diversity, irrepressible charm, and wit, the work of Seymour Chwast has always been the antithesis of…
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During the coronavirus pandemic, the United States Postal Service’s pre-existing financial hardships came to a tipping point as President Donald…
