Late in the winter of 2005, Dutch contemporary art magazine Metropolis M ran an unusual ad in the back of…

Name: Simula Designer: Justin Sloane Foundry: Sharp Type Release Date: October 2019 Back Story: Justin Sloane was at a family…

Most of us have seen phishing emails—maybe a dodgy e-mail address asking about details for a bank you don’t even…

Also in this week’s Design Diary, our roundup of projects, events, and general design world news, we bring you a…

Welcome back to Overheard on Design Twitter, our semi-regular column where we sift through the good, bad, and in-between of…

There’s a new trend report out from Monotype, the mother of all type foundries (they own Helvetica, for starters), that…

In the 1920s and ’30s, the New Typography movement spearheaded by the likes of Jan Tschichold, Karel Teige, Herbert Bayer,…

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Name: Grand Slang Designer: Nikolas Wrobel Foundry: Nikolas Type Release Date: September 2019 Back Story: Grand Slang’s funky modern letterforms…

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Creative person hits the creative ceiling in their not-so-creative small town. They…

Plus, in our Design Diary this week, two websites we implore you to check out: one with an experimental approach…

The poster for Ari Aster’s second feature film, the horror movie Midsommar, seems noticeably jarring for its genre. In the…