When Lesley Carter*, 26, first saw the salaries listed in the Graphic Design Salary Transparency Spreadsheet in January 2020, she…
Two things about capitalism: graphic design is totally bound up with it; and it really has to end. You won’t…
In an episode of the beloved animated 1960s sci-fi sitcom The Jetsons, Mrs. Jetson decides that housework is becoming too…
In the United States, the presence of the universal recycling icon on a product might lead an unassuming consumer to…
This op-ed was collaboratively penned by Design Action Collective and Partner & Partners. Design Action Collective is a cooperative design…
The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…
In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams.…
Beatriz González eschews labels like “pop artist” and “political artist,” which must be tiresome since most people’s first reaction to…
There’s a quote, perhaps apocryphal, from Massimo Vignelli that you’ll sometimes hear from alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design…
Code is a tool—a string of numbers, glyphs, and letters that when arranged in a particular order can be wielded…
I met Bahia Shehab about a year ago at a conference on contemporary Arab graphic design in New York. A…
The best fashion magazines are often the ones that transport readers to other worlds. It’s not just about the clothes…
This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It…
In 1966, Scott Paper Co., an American company that made a range of paper products, released an advertisement for their…
Like Go-Gurt before it, the playful ethos of olive oil brand Graza, which launched earlier this year, is defined by…
Café Royal Books is a one-man print archive of culture, community, and social change based in Southport, UK. This impressive…
You probably don’t need me to tell you that the publishing world is a tough business. While the internet —…
Name: Good Girl Designer: Marion Bisserier Foundry: Type Department Release Date: July 2022 Back Story: We don’t often run ‘sequels’…
Designers aren’t created in a vacuum. They’re shaped by their environments and the people around them, and it’s through mentorship…
When you work at a print publication, it’s easy to get fatigued by years of conversations about the death of…
It was only 50 cents. But it was 50 cents that perhaps changed the look of pop culture as we…
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock has been at the cutting edge of technology for many of his 82 years. Like his contemporary…
Making a magazine is a lot of fun. It’s also a helluva lot of work. There’s the stuff you see—the…
A mention of Playboy, for many, still conjures images of Hugh Hefner smugly swanning about in a silk burgundy smoking jacket;…
Jen Christiansen’s career is shaped like a Venn diagram. As the senior graphics editor of Scientific American, she straddles the…
On Friday, September 29, Frank Bruni wrote a column for the New York Times that ran with the headline, “Brett…
Wired magazine turned 25 last week. There have been a number of classic magazines celebrating an anniversary recently—including Time Out,…
For years it seems there’s been a consensus that print is better for slow journalism, while online is the place…
Flipping through the New Yorker’s Goings On About Town is an essential part of the city’s cultural experience, whether you’re a…
I knew the names of Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie from the masthead of Chrysalis, the ’70s feminist cult magazine…
Independent magazine-makers have always reacted to the times. Paul Gorman, author of The Story of The Face, and co-curator of Print! Tearing…
Once a year at The University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), a team of five design students sits down to…
