Welcome to London! Or at least, our London City Guide, the first of AIGA’s city-specific editorial packages examining what it’s…
As with any city, London life isn’t all rosy. The streets, believe it or not, are neither paved with gold,…
A brief rundown of some of the most influential and revered studios that formed in the English capital, and still…
A brief and by no means exhaustive list of a few of the most famous, formative, and influential projects birthed…
A mini Where Designers Work-style peek into two leading London studios: Wolff Olins and Pentagram. Wolff Olins …
London is renowned for the breadth and sheer number of art and design schools, from University of the Arts London…
Sure, London, you’ve got yer Pentagram, yer Wolff Olins, yer big-studio big-guns. But the beauty of such a creative hubbub…
The old cliche about being tired of London meaning being tired of life is there for a reason: while NYC…
Ed note: None of these people actually exist. These are fictional characters in no way aligned to the agencies…
In 2018, co-working doesn’t stand for collaboratively working or even collectively working. Today, it’s a sign-on-the-dotted-line arrangement where one warm…
It’s easy to spot a Will Bryant piece—look for the colors, the cut-out shapes, the Memphis-inspired irreverence, and the strange…
Snow covers the peaks surrounding the Glarus valley on the Northern fringes of the Swiss Alps. A string of villages…
As we prepare for the inaugural AIGA Eye on Design Conference, we meet some of our esteemed speakers to find…
The inaugural Eye on Design Conference is coming: Minneapolis, MN Wednesday, October 11 Speakers, workshops, and program. Get your ticket,…
Na Kim is a senior designer at Farrar Straus & Giroux and a freelance book cover designer who first caught…
It’s not easy to describe what Tin & Ed do, but “playfulness” is a word that crops up a lot in…
Name: Good Sans Designer: Kenneth Knutsen Foundry: Good Type Foundry Release Date: June 2018 Back Story: In the snowy Oslo…
There’s a silver handprint on the brown, nondescript cover of 4 Fragments, comic artist Viktor Hachmang’s latest release with publisher Landfill Editions.…
Dr Charlotte Webb is the co-founder of Feminist Internet, a group of artists and designers on a mission to advance internet equalities…
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Design Diary, a collection of five projects from across the world that have impressed us…
The standout star of the World Cup isn’t a player—it’s a jersey. Maybe you’ve seen it: lime green and black…
Last week 100 pioneering designers, illustrators, and other visually minded members of the creative community gathered to put some of…
Every summer since 1975, crowds of jazz fanatics from across the world flock to the small Swiss town of Willisau…
Name: Defiantly Different Designers: Han Lin, Brianna DiFelice, and Juliano Domingues Foundry: Grey Advertising Release Date: June 2018 Back Story: How can a…
It’s not often that acid house music and Swiss Modernism are discussed in the same breath. But for designer Rick…
They’ve taken over the coat hanger. They’re balled up under the bed. Their spindly handles peek out from all the…
You know Casper, the bed-in-a-box company with the cool ads? If you live in New York, they’re the best part…
When most founders start talking to me about all the ways their business is so much more than just a…
Michael Ventura, founder of the creative agency Sub Rosa, is sitting in a conference room, a deck of eggplant-colored cards…
Last year designer Marc Hemeon, formerly a designer at YouTube and Google, launched Design Inc., a company that aims to connect designers…
Notions of the “tortured artist” are well-worn: who can forget Van Gogh’s severed ear; poor Sylvia Plath’s frank admissions of…
If you’re a designer or illustrator who could use some money to make your next big dream project come true,…
In Mark Twain’s The Prince and the the Pauper, two boys—the soon to be King of England and the son of a…
Go into any creative agency and you’ll often see traces of dream projects lying around: bits of blue tack crafted into figurines…
Recently we ran a two-part series looking at what makes a successful Kickstarter campaign. One of our interviews was with…
Welcome back to our two-part series on using Kickstarter to fund your design project. As we explained yesterday, Kickstarter works…
