Since opening shop in 2009, Zurich-based independent foundry Grilli Type has quietly built a reputation for expertly drawn contemporary designs.…
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! When Stanley Kubrick set…
Beatriz González eschews labels like “pop artist” and “political artist,” which must be tiresome since most people’s first reaction to…
Chronology is so ubiquitous that it seems almost natural. Human beings age and die, which means we experience linear duration…
To deem [dēm], is to regard or consider something in a specified way; to make relevant. This is precisely the…
Familiar are the exquisite dips and curlicues of traditional Arabic calligraphy, but what is known of the rich history of…
There was a time, around 2013–2016, when the most experimental magazine in the world wasn’t some Berlin fashion zine that…
On a recent weekend afternoon, I found myself in my neighborhood grocery store contemplating a wall of beer. This section…
In 2017, Bon Appetit launched a spinoff website, Healthyish, centered around an ethos that, in its words, “sums up the…
When Democrat Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate race in Georgia was forced into a runoff, his campaign changed up its social…
In 2001, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under the direction of architect Rem Koolhaas, published The Harvard…
“Cae Sal” started with a video. It was 2018, and Molly Baz’s husband had gifted her a pair of Nike…
Forest Young’s career has spanned an impressive range of disciplines and contexts. He was recently named Wolff Olins’s first Global…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages…
Saki Mafundikwa is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), a graphic design and new…
E Roon Kang lives and works in New York, where he operates the interdisciplinary design and research studio Math Practice,…
“Well, presumably the message is for the media. Get it?” —KTVU-2 News There is a conceptual performance by Ant Farm—that…
I met Bahia Shehab about a year ago at a conference on contemporary Arab graphic design in New York. A…
Industry surveys are, by their very nature, a snapshot in time. Pull up the questionnaire, and fill it out. What…
Name: Altform Text Designer: Mark Bloom Foundry: CoType Foundry Release Date: March 2021 Back Story: Mark Bloom launched CoType Foundry in October 2019,…
Open up a newspaper, survey your movie options on Netflix, scroll through Instagram—pick any particularly Pandemic-suited pastime—and you’ll no doubt…
Earth Day doesn’t have an official visual identity, simply because it has had so many over the years. For the…
“We had the first lockdown on the 13th of March, and I think I sent both posters to print on…
Name: Logic Monospace Designer: Jeremy Mickel Foundry: MCKL Release Date: Fall 2020 Back Story: Mixing technical precision, typewriter fetishization, and…
In July 2020, Briar Levit, a professor of graphic design at Portland State University, uploaded an early 20th century sign…
In 1981, a design competition for children launched a road sign that would become one of the most ubiquitous images…
J. Dakota Brown studied graphic design at North Carolina State University and critical theory at the School of the Art…
Name: Sagittarius Designer: Jonathan Hoefler Foundry: Hoefler&Co Release Date: 2021 Back Story: A few years ago, Jonathan Hoefler was working…
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…
