Restaurant branding as we think of it today, with its cookbooks, T-shirts, and Bic Clic pens, can be traced back…
In 2017, Facebook began rolling out a series of new illustrations to accompany content throughout the site. The illustration system,…
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. What’s a week…
The first three dimensions—length, height, and depth—are included on all topographical maps. The “fourth dimension,” or time, is also available…
“Everything is in progress” was the curiously open-ended statement that heralded the launch of Future Fonts back in 2018. The…
Dark patterns are as old as the internet itself. For over 30 years, the web has served as a breeding…
This piece is part of a series that looks at the past year of protests—in Hong Kong, Beirut, Delhi, and…
This piece is part of a series that looks at the past year of protests—in Hong Kong, Beirut, Delhi, and across…
Protest movements shift minds long before they lead to action. This is by nature and design. The welling up of…
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…
In 2014, Order Design Partner Hamish Smyth created a logo for a project that at the time was just a…
Reminisce with me, for a moment, about all the fun of the book fair. A meadow of tabletops unfolds across…
For the last few months, I’ve had a tab open with the type specimen for Columba—a magically warm typeface designed…
We love a good illustration. It’s possible that we love them even more when they’re adorning a fresh-out-the-fridge can of…
We’re all familiar with the “Communist aesthetic”—its bold graphics, hyperrealism, and often stark color schemes. Less familiar is the tender…
Parsing dense government reports that are hundreds of pages in length, set in 12pt Times New Roman, and full of…
Name: CoFo Cinema1909 Designer: Liza Rasskazova Foundry: Contrast Foundry Release Date: Autumn 2020, for exclusive use by Moscow’s Khudozhestvenny Cinema until Autumn 2022 Back…
A deceptively simple question: How are you feeling right now? It’s simple because you’re probably sentient and awake; deceptive because…
If you’ve been worried about your carbon footprint, you can now rest easy—an extensive and growing list of companies, cities,…
Name: Avenir Next World Foundry: Monotype Designers: Adrian Frutiger, Akira Kobayashi, Yanek Iontef, Nadine Chahine, Toshi Omagari, Akaki Razmadze, Elena Papassissa…
Imagine, if you will, that you’re in a grocery aisle looking for flour. Your eyes scan bags upon bags for…
The past year has felt like the highest-budget sci-fi movie ever made: rioting mobs swarmed the US Capitol, a deadly…
At a certain age, a person has to take stock of his or her life, maybe tell a different story, tackle a…
