For many of us, the intersection of brands and data brings to mind issues of privacy; it can stir up…
In early 2018, a designer posted on Facebook that only around one-third of the speakers at Brno’s International Biennial of…
Sarah Boris is an award winning graphic designer and art director based in London, where since 2015 she has run…
“If I hear the phrase ‘Summer of Love’ one more time, I will scream,” says Louise Sandhaus from her design…
When I started on this series of Design + Mental Health features, I’d assumed it would be fairly straightforward: I…
About a decade ago, a designer at trading card giant Panini America was tasked with performing a resurrection. The goal…
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…
I teach design at a public university in the American south. I also serve as the internship coordinator, connecting students…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
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,…
Nicole Killian is an artist and graphic designer whose work “investigates how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and…
Rebecca Wright isn’t one to shy away from big questions. As co-founder of the publishing, curation, and design advocacy organization…
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…
Plus, a cinematic graduate show and growing documentation of women in type design. For more along these lines (and so…
When I arrived to Berlin at the start of this year, Prem Krishnamurthy’s collaborative residency had just come to a…
After months of data analysis and research, the results of the 2019 Design Census are here. Some of the information…
Name: Next Designers: TwoPoints.Net Release Date: Summer/Fall 2019 Back Story: We’re longtime fans of Hamburg-based studio TwoPoints.Net. In fact,…
“Words divide, pictures unite,” or so went the motto of Isotype’s founder, the philosopher and sociologist, Otto Neurath. From its…
From floor-to-ceiling, the walls at the Gallery of Honour at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum are papered in a dense array of…
Plus, the gradient-based weather app of any designer’s wet/humid/sunny dreams, a poster rebuke to the “complacency regarding climate change,” and…
In 1955, the winding gulleys of Kolkata in India were awash with large posters and almost translucent paper flyers that…
It’s mid-August, you’re on holiday. Barneys New York has just filed for bankruptcy, with reports of the high-fashion store going…
Name: Robocap Designers: Nikolos Killian and Tanner Woodbury Design Studio: Forth + Back Release Date: Spring 2020 Back Story: What…
It’s not always easy for designers to work with art, or with artists. As we’ve previously explored, there’s a fine…
Yellowstone National Park spans 3,472 square miles, cutting across Wyoming and bits of Montana and Idaho. All told, it takes…
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…
