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Typography

Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…

Graphic design

In Memory of Colin Forbes, Celebrated Co-Founder of Pentagram

Colin Forbes, who passed away just a little more than a week ago, was a key part of the design…

Type Tuesday

Shine a Light: Exposure Sculpts Alphabets from Light and Shadow

Name: Exposure Designer: Federico Parra Barrios Foundry: 205TF Release Date: April 2022 Back Story: If you are not a recent…

Design + Gender

Tradeswomen Was the Magazine for Women in Blue-Collar Work During the ’80s and ’90s

When the first issue of Tradeswomen first appeared in subscribers’ mailboxes in 1980, they were “delighted,” said Molly Martin, its…

Digital

The Ever-changing Art of the Screensaver

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…

Design + Ecology

Tech Minimalism is Out. Welcome to the Squishy, Microbial World of the Biobrand

The face of biotech has no face at all. It doesn’t have a spine. It doesn’t have complex organs. Hell,…

Magazines

From Kindergarten Through High School, This Family Has Been Making a Magazine Together for Ten Years

When Claire and Pann Lim floated the idea of starting a magazine with their two children back in 2013, their…

Type Tuesday

Timezone Is a Workhorse of a Font Inspired by the Heyday of Digital Type Design

Name: Timezone Designers: Elias Hanzer and Lucas Liccini Foundry: Hanzer Liccini Release Date: November 2021 Back Story: Berlin-based graphic design studio…

Design History 101

Self-taught Designer Marguerita Mergentime Literally Brought Modernism to the Table in America

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…

Books

Belgian Graphic Design Is a “Crossroads of Influences”

In many ways, we’re living in the golden age of graphic design histories. All over the world, designers, historians, and…

Magazines

Butt Magazine Is Back. What Made It So Iconic in the First Place?

Founded in 2001 by Dutch editors Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom, Butt magazine spent the first decade of a…

Design + Music

From Fela to Made: A Kuti Family Lineage of Confrontational Artwork

If ever tangible proof were needed that Fela Kuti’s legacy lives on, look no further than his youngest son Seun…

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