If you’re a designer and a lover of nature, then you might have on your shelf one of the many…
There’s a quote, perhaps apocryphal, from Massimo Vignelli that you’ll sometimes hear from alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design…
What are you seeing? The ’90s are back. The 1890s, that is. Turn of the century inspired typefaces (we’re calling…
Hugh Francis has just over two months of payroll in the bank, and he doesn’t care who knows it. That’s…
Neville Brody is a journalist’s dream. He has a well-honed knack for wryly provocative, headline-ready takes on the design industry…
For a flash in the 1990s, Magic Eye, the world’s most famous—and infamously frustrating—optical illusion, was everywhere. Posters bearing the…
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…
There was a time, around 2013–2016, when the most experimental magazine in the world wasn’t some Berlin fashion zine that…
On a recent weekend afternoon, I found myself in my neighborhood grocery store contemplating a wall of beer. This section…
In 2017, Bon Appetit launched a spinoff website, Healthyish, centered around an ethos that, in its words, “sums up the…
When Democrat Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate race in Georgia was forced into a runoff, his campaign changed up its social…
In 2001, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under the direction of architect Rem Koolhaas, published The Harvard…
“Cae Sal” started with a video. It was 2018, and Molly Baz’s husband had gifted her a pair of Nike…
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…
Suicide was a band so punk that even the punks hated them. Formed in Manhattan, New York City in 1970,…
Close your eyes and let me whisper “scent branding” into your waiting ear. What exactly does that phrase conjure? You…
Name: Remix Stencil Designer: Ran Zheng Foundry: Ran Design Release Date: January 2022 Back Story: Designer Ran Zheng has called…
I don’t remember where my locker was or why I found it funny to pick a radio jingle for The…
You’ve seen it before: an isolated medicine cabinet, filled with a range of beautifully packaged products, photographed head-on in front…
Name: Almoneda Designer: Alejandro Santos Foundry: Sudtipos Release date: January 2022 Back Story: Santos found inspiration for his typeface near…
The best fashion magazines are often the ones that transport readers to other worlds. It’s not just about the clothes…
My attraction to graphic design started with comic books covers. Like a lot of artistic comic nerds, my pre-teen friends…
Welcome to Form Factor, our column exploring the intersection of packaging, branding, and culture. When skincare brand Soft Services launched…
In 2016, the artist Deborah Roberts created “Pluralism Series,” a series of prints that, borrowing the aesthetic of a Microsoft…
In 2010, I curated a selection of Ed Fella’s famous flyers, created “after the fact”—as he put it—for his own…
The art of symmetry is a mathematical one. In its purest form it represents balance, from weights on a scale…
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…