On the day of my interview with Olimpia Zagnoli—via FaceTime from London—I take a peek at the celebrated 36-year-old illustrator’s…
Around the same time every year, half-way through the Spring semester, just as the pull of Summer begins, my students…
Over the past decade, everyone—and I mean everyone—with an online presence felt the pressure to become a content publisher. Coca-Cola.…
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. Surrounded by biryani…
Going to the doctor has always required a level of visual patience. Forms need second reads; digital interfaces require rebooting;…
Saki Mafundikwa is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), a graphic design and new…
The act of voting has never felt so critical. With accusations of rigged elections, voter fraud, machine malfunctions, and vote…
For many extended families across the United Kingdom, 2016 became the year that we stopped talking to one another. Something…
It would seem that the development of a strong campaign identity, and intuitively, an associated political identity, would be extremely…
Protest movements shift minds long before they lead to action. This is by nature and design. The welling up of…
It was the fall of 1852 and school was in session for a lucky group of women who were invited…
I started following @broobs.psd on Instagram on May 1, International Workers Day, after I saw several friends sharing a poster…
Anyone who was a Mr. Robot fan will remember the scene in which Susan Jacobs, general counsel for the fictional…
For years I have been observing and writing about the rise of our digital identities—the increasing fidelity of them, along…
When Stanley Kubrick set out to design the videophone featured in his 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, he enlisted…
In the late 1950s, a British sociologist coined the term “meritocracy.” He used the phrase satirically, describing a restructuring of…
“It isn’t hard to lose sight of the bigger picture for the things we help build: How could it be…
Now that “screen” is a metonym for all digital technology—“screen time” a shorthand for staring at anything that glows—it’s easy…
Our Weekend With series looks at the world through the eyes of a designer on their days off. Last time,…
“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 is the second installment in a series of articles that each focus on a summer school, residency, or alternate…
In the essay that accompanied the program for their show I’m Not Trying To Change Anything, I’m Just Changing (2019),…
Name: Diode Designer: Natasha Lucas Foundry: MuirMcNeil Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Designer Natasha Lucas first began a series of visual experiments…
Any election year is accompanied by the inevitable onslaught of political advertising—find it on social media, on billboards and bumpers,…
“We’ve had enough!” “The revolution is female!” “Fuck PiS!” These are some of the chants resounding through the streets and…
Chronology is so ubiquitous that it seems almost natural. Human beings age and die, which means we experience linear duration…
Eda Levenson and Geneva White do not run a charity. They do not run an after-school program, or a mentorship…
Name: Maxi Designer: Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, and Andree Paat Foundry: Dinamo Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Maxi was one…
This is the fifth in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album…
Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…
Architectural notation, the precise language by which windows and doors become lines and arcs, typically has little use outside of…
K-pop encompasses a lot more than just the common label of popular music from South Korea. It’s an entire industry,…
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…
