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…
As gender-neutral pronouns become more commonplace in spoken language, they haven’t yet found a secure perch in written text. With…
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.…
After a chance encounter at the supermarket, two former friends attempt to salvage their deteriorating friendship. What follows is a…
Both the design and the non-design community alike are familiar with the stark clarity of a prescription pill packet or the…
Gouffre, a beautiful, deep blue tome landed last week at international comics festival Angoulême, its cover shimmering like a nebula, its…
It’s been nearly 30 years since the neon sign for the Brown Derby restaurant went dark. That iconic Hollywood eatery…
Like many beautiful things, the newly released smartwatch edition of Mondaine’s successful Helvetica line might be more trouble than it’s…
Sometimes an independent magazine becomes very popular very quickly, and the line between whether it should be considered mainstream or…
The title of the Cooper Hewitt’s recently opened exhibition isn’t a question—indeed, “How Posters Work” is very obviously a statement.…
In a visual collision delighting design nerds and subversive librarians alike, Berlin’s Museum der Dinge (The Museum of Things) presents…
Here, in Greenwich (England, that is, not Connecticut), we’ve all got astronomy on the brain. So when photographer Charles Emerson…
A childhood spent nearly blind gave Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh a clear vision of his future—just as soon as he…
