It’s the middle of the workday in New York City and I’m watching a shaky phone video of a transit…
Once you start, you can’t help but see them everywhere when it comes to the design and illustration world: the…
As a child, a cat always became a bat. My name was not Maddy but Mubby. Stranger still, a dog…
This story is part of a series that explores the results of the 2019 Design Census. Read the first story,…
After my first day interning at a design studio in London one summer, I returned home on the verge of…
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…
Our Weekend With series looks at the world through the eyes of a designer on their days off. Last time,…
“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…
Gender hierarchies are deeply entrenched across the design industry, immediately apparent in agencies, universities, museums, and beyond. Last year we…
In January 1954, François Truffaut famously published a piece in French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema railing against the tired and anachronistic…
Name: Recursive Designer: Stephen Nixon Foundry: Arrow Type Release Date: Beta version is available to download now via Github. Google…
The fear that automation is replacing actual design skills has been widely debunked. AI is still coming, of course—it’s just…
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the fairest of them all? Why, it’s you silly, Design Twitter! While this week…
We’ve seen it before: tech company launches print publication to build “brand awareness” and position itself as a leader in…
Mimi Onuoha is an artist who works mostly with algorithms, data sets, and digital systems, but her best known work…
Name: Montage Designer: The typeface was originally designed by Ed Benguiat in the 1960s. In late 2019, Montage’s letterforms were…
In the past decade, the art world has come to embrace technology and design into its hallowed halls. It’s a…
Also in this week’s Design Diary, our roundup of projects, events, and general design world news, we bring you some…
Six months ago Richard Turley sent a disgruntled email. Earlier that day he had visited his neighborhood newsstand and came…
