If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
There’s a quote, perhaps apocryphal, from Massimo Vignelli that you’ll sometimes hear from alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design…
What are you seeing? The ’90s are back. The 1890s, that is. Turn of the century inspired typefaces (we’re calling…
Hugh Francis has just over two months of payroll in the bank, and he doesn’t care who knows it. That’s…
Neville Brody is a journalist’s dream. He has a well-honed knack for wryly provocative, headline-ready takes on the design industry…
For a flash in the 1990s, Magic Eye, the world’s most famous—and infamously frustrating—optical illusion, was everywhere. Posters bearing the…
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
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…
There’s always been a certain mythology associated with California—that moving there somehow inherently holds the promise for limitless potential. Within…
I knew the names of Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie from the masthead of Chrysalis, the ’70s feminist cult magazine…
Tucked into a quiet corner of Orijit Sen’s studio lies a dog-eared copy of River of Stories, one of the…
This article is part of our exploration of design and psychedelia. Pick up a copy of Eye on Design #02,…
For the uninitiated, hardcore was a subgenre of punk that has since become most famed for its more political movements…
In 1920, Vladimir Lenin signed a decree that was to have a monumental effect on artists in post-revolutionary Russia. This…
Close your eyes and let me whisper “scent branding” into your waiting ear. What exactly does that phrase conjure? You…
Name: Remix Stencil Designer: Ran Zheng Foundry: Ran Design Release Date: January 2022 Back Story: Designer Ran Zheng has called…
I don’t remember where my locker was or why I found it funny to pick a radio jingle for The…
You’ve seen it before: an isolated medicine cabinet, filled with a range of beautifully packaged products, photographed head-on in front…
Name: Almoneda Designer: Alejandro Santos Foundry: Sudtipos Release date: January 2022 Back Story: Santos found inspiration for his typeface near…
The best fashion magazines are often the ones that transport readers to other worlds. It’s not just about the clothes…
My attraction to graphic design started with comic books covers. Like a lot of artistic comic nerds, my pre-teen friends…
Welcome to Form Factor, our column exploring the intersection of packaging, branding, and culture. When skincare brand Soft Services launched…
In 2016, the artist Deborah Roberts created “Pluralism Series,” a series of prints that, borrowing the aesthetic of a Microsoft…
In 2010, I curated a selection of Ed Fella’s famous flyers, created “after the fact”—as he put it—for his own…
The art of symmetry is a mathematical one. In its purest form it represents balance, from weights on a scale…
Design does not exist in a vacuum. We are constantly and simultaneously surrounded by textures, contours, smells, sights, and sounds.…
With information at our fingertips and innovative design just a few Tumblr scrolls away, it’s easy to forget that just…
Back in February, EoD’s Madeleine Morley spoke with designer Kimberly Varella about recent work she’d produced through her L.A.-based studio…
If you’re a fan of the comics published by Vice, have ever listened to any Run the Jewels, spend megabucks…
“I’m a hoarder and a collector. I’ve still got about 300 of my childhood comic books. I’ve got all the…
We’ve come across some bold, odd, and cheeky studio names in our time, but none that expresses how fun the…
Though in its time it was accused of an almost ostentatious luminosity, today, in the protruding storefront gallery of Sprüth…
For Brooklyn artist Ellie Irons, finding the link between nature and art is as simple as looking at the sidewalk…
Not all university experiences are worthy of a major museum exhibition, but when they are, I get all misty-eyed over the formative college…
In 1986, author Steven Heller wrote the introduction to a Print magazine feature on a new MFA in Illustration at…
There’s just something about the way the type looks when it’s made using a typewriter. The edges of the characters are slightly…