“Weekend With” is a series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their days…
“Weekend With” is a new series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their…
This article has been updated with corrections. The pitch sounds almost too good to be true: An all-expenses paid six-month…
Here’s my message for those of you who think the robot revolution isn’t going to change the design industry: think…
Nicole Killian is an artist and graphic designer whose work “investigates how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and…
Through our ongoing Design + Education coverage this year, we had the privilege of talking to educators from around the world…
As illustration programme director at London’s Camberwell College of Arts, Darryl Clifton couldn’t be better placed to consider the complexities of…
This is my favorite line ever uttered in one of those flipping-through-the-portfolio presentations that designers love to give: “Only a…
Well, we’ve once again made it to Friday—and a spring Friday, at that. Which, depending on where you are in…
Let me take you back, briefly, to an uncomfortable time when you had fickle skin, fickle friends, and a crisis…
It’s safe to say that we’ve reached critical mass on the whole built-for-Instagram pop-up trend. The world may not need another…
Eye on Design #04 is the “Worth” issue, filled with stories that question the way we value design—measured in money,…
Name: Hotel Designers: Yuexin Huo Release Date: Still in development Backstory: When Yuexin Huo left China for the U.S. for…
It’s easy to consider scripty, hand-rendered lettering and gentle color-pencil illustrations as sort of wishy-washy, maybe a little twee. “Girly,”…
Welcome one, welcome all to the weekend. And it’s not just any weekend: this Sunday is Saint Patrick’s Day. So…
For as long as we have existed, humans have tried to make sense of color. Back when our limited color…
There’s a lot of power inherent in the language we use and how we choose to use it. It’s a…
A lot of design businesses claim to be open and transparent, but ask them a pointed question (even off-the-record), and…
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…
