“Weekend With” is a new series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their…
“Weekend With” is a series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their days…
This op-ed is one of a three-part series of opinion pieces in which educators address the way design history has…
In 2014, graphic design student Sarah Elawad moved to Qatar to study at a VCUarts satellite school in the capital city…
For as long as they’ve both existed, design education and “real-world” professional design practice have been engaged in a funny…
Working across text and performance, with some complex diagrammatic illustrations thrown in to try and make sense of life, death,…
The environs around a visitor to the Midwest in winter can command a certain bleak outlook. Overcast skies, bare trees,…
Sixty years ago at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, a curious wall hanging in the fair’s decorative…
Name: Sväng Designer: Claes Nordenstam Developed by: Göran Söderström Foundry: Letters from Sweden Release Date: April 2019 Back Story: In…
For many of us, the intersection of brands and data brings to mind issues of privacy; it can stir up…
Plus, the third issue of The Native magazine, The Rebel Issue, is a triple threat; cute “Not Now” desktop icons…
From Twitter to Instagram, Patreon to Kickstarter, it’s never seemed simpler to build an audience and launch an indie magazine…
Sarah Boris is an award winning graphic designer and art director based in London, where since 2015 she has run…
You can tell a lot about a neighborhood through its letterforms—it’s often signs and storefronts that subtly give an area…
This year at AIGA’s Design Conference, industrial designer Ti Chang shared how she’s built her career around designing for social…
Name: Public Sans Designer: Dan Williams Organization/Foundry: Technology Transformation Services Release date: April 2019 Backstory: The seed for Public Sans…
Name: Helvetica Now Designer: Charles Nix Foundry: Monotype Release Date: April 2019 Back story: Yes, yes, it’s a rule that…
Name: Whyte and Whyte Inktrap Designers: Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, and Erkin Karamemet Foundry: Dinamo Release Date: March 2019 Back…
Name: Construk Sans Designer: Ryan Hicks Release Date: Still in development Back Story: Inspired by a TED Talk by cognitive scientist…
Name: Study Designer: Jesse Ragan, based on a concept by midcentury Czech-American designer and illustrator Rudolph Ruzicka Foundry: XYZ Type Release Date: November 2018 Back…
Name: Bona Nova Typeface Designers: Andrzej Heidrich and Mateusz Machalski Design Process Collaborators: Leszek Bielski, Anna Wieluńska, Michał Jarociński, Rafał Łaszek…
Name: Pilat Designer: Stéphane Elbaz Foundry: General Type Studio Release Date: July 10, 2018 Back Story: During the optimistic, future-looking 1950s and ’60s, typefaces such…
When we heard last fall that Monotype was now operating out of modern digs in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood we asked ourselves, “Hadn’t they always?” Monotype is, of…
Our weekly look at a favorite new typeface. Share yours with us on Twitter @AIGAeyeondesign and Instagram @AIGAeyeondesign with #TypeTuesday. Name: Wyeth Designer:…
Typeface designer James Montalbano is responsible for designing a somewhat astonishing 800 fonts since he founded Brooklyn’s Terminal Design in 1990. If…
