Restaurant branding as we think of it today, with its cookbooks, T-shirts, and Bic Clic pens, can be traced back…
In 2017, Facebook began rolling out a series of new illustrations to accompany content throughout the site. The illustration system,…
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. What’s a week…
The first three dimensions—length, height, and depth—are included on all topographical maps. The “fourth dimension,” or time, is also available…
“Everything is in progress” was the curiously open-ended statement that heralded the launch of Future Fonts back in 2018. The…
Dark patterns are as old as the internet itself. For over 30 years, the web has served as a breeding…
This piece is part of a series that looks at the past year of protests—in Hong Kong, Beirut, Delhi, and…
This piece is part of a series that looks at the past year of protests—in Hong Kong, Beirut, Delhi, and across…
Protest movements shift minds long before they lead to action. This is by nature and design. The welling up of…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! Sometimes the design scene…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
While diversity and inclusion might be ubiquitous terms in the mission statement of any progressive university, these words alone do…
Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In…
While its name suggests a grandiose collective occupying its own impressive brownstone office, in fact the Office of Culture and…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
Last year, I wrote an article for Eye on Design that asked what decolonization means in the context of design.…
Last August, Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic from Europe to the US by solar-powered boat, with the Fridays for the…
In the United States, the presence of the universal recycling icon on a product might lead an unassuming consumer to…
As designers, the work we create can unknowingly perpetuate certain ideologies that have destructive consequences. One of the more obvious…
Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…
One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in…
Mariana Amatullo’s teaching and design practice sits at the intersection of design, design management, and social innovation—one of her primary…
What does it mean to design for social change? For decades designers have tried to push the profession into more…
Beatriz González eschews labels like “pop artist” and “political artist,” which must be tiresome since most people’s first reaction to…
For some people, January is a moment to press pause on drinking. Bottles get hidden away in the bar cabinet.…
Name: Dédale Designer: Thomas Bouville Foundry: 205TF Release Date: October 2020 Back Story: Dédale began life in 2017 when Thomas…
To see the CIA launch a contemporary rebrand that has been likened to electronic music fliers or a generic tech…
Risograph zines are publications with much aesthetic hype, but they’re also a medium that allows for a democratic and attainable…
In 1996 while on his hospital sickbed, Huang Hua Cheng was eagerly completing two final projects. The first was his…
Name: F37 Caslon Foundry: F37 Designer: Rick Banks Release Date: November 2020 Back Story: F37 Caslon is, as the name suggests,…
Designing for clients such as the Museum of Modern Art, AIGA, Knoll International, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale…
The ossified binary of climate change discourse in the United States has been grievously fractured by reality. Out has spilled…
Welcome to Spotted, Eye on Design’s column that turns an eye on the styles and graphic trends you’re seeing everywhere.…
Name: Lektorat Designer: Florian Fecher Foundry: TypeTogether Release Date: October 2020 Back Story: Many a design student dreams of producing a senior…
Ever wanted your design to stand out from the crowd? Here are our top tips for even the most unimaginative…
Post-school, it’s not often that you’re afforded an excuse to plumb the depths of a topic like color theory or…
One of the markers of great illustration is when it takes a rich, interior world and projects it out for others to engage with. Sometimes…
The characters drawn by Portuguese illustrator Tiago Galo have a few things in common: cheeks painted like China dolls, fixed, incredulous stares, and oftentimes no mouths at…
Last summer, New York’s MoMA announced it had acquired Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow Flag for its permanent design collection. Speaking to…
I finished writing this post at deep sea blue and published it here a few days later at lavender. Depending…
If you’ve been struggling to imagine what it would look like if a spaceship filled with alien plant life collided…
In 2013, Helsinki- and New York-based design studio Tsto created a visual identity for a graphic design exhibition at Design Museum…
There’s a fine line between minimal design and design that’s boring or even worse, lazy. Remember Nigel Tufnel’s sage comment…
Gizem Vural is an illustrator who, unlike most, never knew she wanted to illustrate. Instead, Vural thought she wanted to be…
