To see the CIA launch a contemporary rebrand that has been likened to electronic music fliers or a generic tech…
In 1996 while on his hospital sickbed, Huang Hua Cheng was eagerly completing two final projects. The first was his…
2020 was tough. Between a global pandemic, a divisive election, and rising racial tensions, it sometimes felt like the year…
When I arrived to Berlin at the start of this year, Prem Krishnamurthy’s collaborative residency had just come to a…
Here’s my message for those of you who think the robot revolution isn’t going to change the design industry: think…
This story was originally published in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. Vaporwave is a thoroughly internet-birthed…
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…
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…
Welcome back to Spotted, Eye on Design’s column that turns an eye on the styles and graphic trends you’re seeing…
If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
The design process is always the result of a negotiation. Design for and from a theater is no exception, reaching…
Dave 1 and P-Thugg of Chromeo, the guys behind Juliet Records, love typefaces so much they commissioned their own. Juliet…
You can spot a natural wine before you taste it: a hazy, jewel-toned color fills a clear bottle with a…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Company X announces a new logo with a buzzword-filled press release. We’ve…
A year into the pandemic, many of us are longing to do what once might have seemed mundane: leaf through…
Name: Outward Designer: Raoul Audouin Foundry: Velvetyne Release Date: March 2021 Back Story: When Amsterdam-raised graphic designer Raoul Audouin moved…
In the week following the tragic shootings in Atlanta, and in the months beforehand amid a wave of violent attacks…
There’s a Burger King near my parent’s house in Newark, New Jersey with an oddly shaped drive-thru that positions cars…
David Jon Walker is an assistant professor of graphic design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, as well…
One of my favorite pieces by the artist Shannon Ebner is ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK, a work that comprises four flickering…
Making a magazine is a lot of fun. It’s also a helluva lot of work. There’s the stuff you see—the…
The most striking thing about the cover design of Simon Hanselmann’s One More Year is the shiny lenticular foil that highlights…
There’s a ghost that haunts the backstreets of Zurich. It’s called Knigi. Turn at the right moment as you walk…
A few years ago Rob Cordiner was an Australian designer with a passion for keeping things small. His Melbourne-based studio,…
Alt-comics is a notoriously precarious industry for publishers, susceptible to passing trends and financial crises; in recessions, the first luxuries to…