Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…

The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…

For Eiko Ishioka, one of Japan’s most groundbreaking designers, creativity was an amorphous, fluid medium that she dipped into, gently…

Ritu Ghiya is an artist, designer, and web developer. She helps design Sounds About Riso, a risograph fair founded by…

The design industry can feel like a black box, especially when it comes to finding a job and getting paid.…

Michael Gericke’s storied career could be seen as the result of a combination of skill, enthusiasm, and a series of…

In April 2020, A/D/O—the design incubator-meets-community center-meets-café-meets-design shop—announced its impending closure ostensibly due to the pandemic. Since opening in 2017,…

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…

On first sight, Mantar is a jovial typeface family. High-contrast, serif-forward, wide-faced, with details that seem to jump from letter…

The day before Juneteenth was commemorated as a national holiday, recognizing for the first time, as a country, the day…

In August 2014, a month before I became chair of the graphic design program at California College of the Arts,…