The design process is always the result of a negotiation. Design for and from a theater is no exception, reaching…
In July 2020, Briar Levit, a professor of graphic design at Portland State University, uploaded an early 20th century sign…
Six years ago, back in 2014, I had the chance to sit down with Enzo Mari at his Milanese home.…
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness.…
Spurred by the economic crisis of the coronavirus pandemic and social upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement, independent publishers…
If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
Forest Young’s career has spanned an impressive range of disciplines and contexts. He was recently named Wolff Olins’s first Global…
Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages…
J. Dakota Brown studied graphic design at North Carolina State University and critical theory at the School of the Art…
David Jon Walker is an assistant professor of graphic design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, as well…
Kathleen Sleboda’s work traverses disciplines, often involving acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. Sleboda has been teaching at the…
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…
For as long as non-designers have needed to create design-centric work, there have been tools and services that help them…
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
Name: Arras Designer: Barrett Reid-Maroney Release Date: August 2021 Back Story: “Suit the action to the word, the word to…
Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (designed by Random House’s Rachel Ake Keuch) has been one of the most consequential pieces of…
Name: Pimpit Designer: Benoît Bodhuin Foundry: BB Bureau Release Date: June 2021 Back Story: Nantes-based graphic designer and typographer Benoît Bodhuin first…
For more than four decades, Terry Irwin, one of this year’s AIGA Medalists, has been a formative figure in design…
The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…
For Eiko Ishioka, one of Japan’s most groundbreaking designers, creativity was an amorphous, fluid medium that she dipped into, gently…
Ritu Ghiya is an artist, designer, and web developer. She helps design Sounds About Riso, a risograph fair founded by…
Name: BN Grimer Designer: Brandon Nickerson Foundry: Brandon Nickerson Studio Release Date: June 22, 2021 Back Story “A font’s main…
The design industry can feel like a black box, especially when it comes to finding a job and getting paid.…
Michael Gericke’s storied career could be seen as the result of a combination of skill, enthusiasm, and a series of…
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…
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…
