We first read this piece, written by Dori Tunstall, the dean of design at OCAD University in Toronto, in a…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In…
Somewhere along the long timeline of human existence, society began associating innovation with speed: faster cars, rapid test results, instant…
In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams.…
This article is excerpted from the first issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on Design #01, the “Invisible” issue, for…
Mimi Onuoha is an artist who works mostly with algorithms, data sets, and digital systems, but her best known work…
Netflix is keeping us awake. I’m not talking about its latest gameshow Awake: The Million Dollar Game, where contestants must…
This article is excerpted from the fifth issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on…
There’s a common refrain on Twitter that can be heard echoing across the feed any time there’s a big news…
One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in…
Last week I made progress. I was down 20 minutes. Instead of spending an average of three hours a day…
E Roon Kang lives and works in New York, where he operates the interdisciplinary design and research studio Math Practice,…
Elizabeth Carey Smith is a creative director whose focus is on furthering the overlap of New York’s type designers, art…
Rebecca Wright isn’t one to shy away from big questions. As co-founder of the publishing, curation, and design advocacy organization…
Nicole Killian is an artist and graphic designer whose work “investigates how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and…
As the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Gail Anderson (a 2008 AIGA Medalist) has once again…
Elizabeth White is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her work explores “social, psychological, and political themes including maintenance and self-preservation;…
Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded…
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…
You’ve probably seen it a dozen times: Tom Cruise waves his hands in front of a blank, glassy screen, and…
Name: Forever Grotesk Designer: Anton Studer Foundry: Nouvelle Noire Release Date: May 2020 Back Story: Does the world really need any more Grotesque…
“It isn’t hard to lose sight of the bigger picture for the things we help build: How could it be…
“Designed to be deleted” dating app Hinge is on a quest to get to know me on a level that other apps…
For Vanessa Newman, building communities is like second nature. Their most recent one, Design to Divest, is on a mission…
Walking through the world, we leave a trail of bits and bytes in our wake. People generate an astonishing amount…
Name: “Shizzle” (Unofficially, that is. The typeface doesn’t technically have a name, but this is what TwoPoints.Net cofounder Martin Lorenz…
When the animated short film Wade opens to the stillness of a Kolkata ravaged by the forces of climate change,…
The visual design of television news has remained as busy as ever during coverage of the pandemic and protests over…
Last year, we interviewed Milton Glaser for the “Gossip” issue of Eye on Design magazine, during which he revealed family…
Like many mid-century design pioneers, George Him forged his career through the application of European modernist and avant-garde artistic ideas…
This is the third in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album…
I don’t remember ever having visited an exhibition of book design without experiencing what curators call the “Snow White effect”—an…
As an editorial resident here at AIGA, I spend my time nosing around for interesting design-related goings on each week…
As an editorial resident here at AIGA, I have been spending my time nosing around for interesting design-related goings on…
Earlier this year, a seemingly innocuous black-and-white photograph of a young girl on a fairground ride began appearing across cities,…
Getting outdoors once required little more than a pair of sturdy boots and a warm-ish jacket—perhaps a hat for the…
Berlin’s HORT has managed to retain the best of both worlds; the small studio prides itself on its close-knit, collaborative team…
We hope you weren’t expecting a history lesson from the new COLORS book, emphatically sub-titled A Book About A Magazine About…
In one image, an empty shoe lifts up as if it’s about to charge forward in a vigorous sprint. In…
A lollipop, a shoe, a bisected pomegranate, or a thistle might come to mind when you think of photographer Craig…
Photographer, architect, and graphic designer Jeffrey Milstein is perhaps best known for his spare and stunning photographs of the undersides…
