I teach design at a public university in the American south. I also serve as the internship coordinator, connecting students…
In early 2018, a designer posted on Facebook that only around one-third of the speakers at Brno’s International Biennial of…
For many of us, the intersection of brands and data brings to mind issues of privacy; it can stir up…
“If I hear the phrase ‘Summer of Love’ one more time, I will scream,” says Louise Sandhaus from her design…
Ask the nearest designer for an example of good design, and they’ll mostly likely name drop some big brand logos,…
This year at AIGA’s Design Conference, industrial designer Ti Chang shared how she’s built her career around designing for social…
Sarah Boris is an award winning graphic designer and art director based in London, where since 2015 she has run…
About a decade ago, a designer at trading card giant Panini America was tasked with performing a resurrection. The goal…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
When I started on this series of Design + Mental Health features, I’d assumed it would be fairly straightforward: I…
This is the second piece in our series that weighs the pros and cons of living and working in Mumbai’s…
Following in the footsteps of our London City Guide, this is the first in a new series that weighs the…
This is the third piece in our series that weighs the pros and cons of living and working in Mumbai’s creative…
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…
“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…
Also in this week’s Design Diary, our roundup of projects, events, and general design-world-news, we bring you a new and…
Welcome back to Overheard on Design Twitter, our semi-regular column where we sift through the good, bad, and in-between of…
There’s a new trend report out from Monotype, the mother of all type foundries (they own Helvetica, for starters), that…
In the 1920s and ’30s, the New Typography movement spearheaded by the likes of Jan Tschichold, Karel Teige, Herbert Bayer,…
Dear reader, Welcome to our own private utopia, where for 160 pages we indulge in a sweeping interpretation of a…
Name: Grand Slang Designer: Nikolas Wrobel Foundry: Nikolas Type Release Date: September 2019 Back Story: Grand Slang’s funky modern letterforms…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Creative person hits the creative ceiling in their not-so-creative small town. They…
Plus, in our Design Diary this week, two websites we implore you to check out: one with an experimental approach…
The poster for Ari Aster’s second feature film, the horror movie Midsommar, seems noticeably jarring for its genre. In the…
There’s a joke often told in the design world that goes something along the lines of this: “The client came…
We hear time and again that the design “canon” needs a big shakeup—in design education, exhibitions, or simply in the…
Name: Veining Designer: Oded Ezer Release Date: October 2019 Back Story: Tel Aviv-based graphic artist, type designer, and author Oded Ezer is…
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…
