We first read this piece, written by Dori Tunstall, the dean of design at OCAD University in Toronto, in a…
“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize…
Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In…
Somewhere along the long timeline of human existence, society began associating innovation with speed: faster cars, rapid test results, instant…
In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams.…
This article is excerpted from the first issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on Design #01, the “Invisible” issue, for…
Mimi Onuoha is an artist who works mostly with algorithms, data sets, and digital systems, but her best known work…
Netflix is keeping us awake. I’m not talking about its latest gameshow Awake: The Million Dollar Game, where contestants must…
This article is excerpted from the fifth issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on…
There’s a common refrain on Twitter that can be heard echoing across the feed any time there’s a big news…
One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in…
Last week I made progress. I was down 20 minutes. Instead of spending an average of three hours a day…
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…
“Designed to be deleted” dating app Hinge is on a quest to get to know me on a level that other apps…
For Vanessa Newman, building communities is like second nature. Their most recent one, Design to Divest, is on a mission…
Walking through the world, we leave a trail of bits and bytes in our wake. People generate an astonishing amount…
Name: “Shizzle” (Unofficially, that is. The typeface doesn’t technically have a name, but this is what TwoPoints.Net cofounder Martin Lorenz…
When the animated short film Wade opens to the stillness of a Kolkata ravaged by the forces of climate change,…
The visual design of television news has remained as busy as ever during coverage of the pandemic and protests over…
Last year, we interviewed Milton Glaser for the “Gossip” issue of Eye on Design magazine, during which he revealed family…
Like many mid-century design pioneers, George Him forged his career through the application of European modernist and avant-garde artistic ideas…
This is the third in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album…
Name: F37 Beckett Foundry: F37 Designer: Rick Banks Release Date: April 2020 Back Story: It’s not the most usual of beginnings for…
In the most iconic scene of The Devil Wears Prada, Andy (Anne Hathaway) nonchalantly dismisses two nearly identical blue belts…
For years I have been observing and writing about the rise of our digital identities—the increasing fidelity of them, along…
Interactive design is reaching a crossroads, and no one knows this better than designer Ian Burns, the group creative director…
Mirko Borsche’s website design for DJ and musician Laurel Halo is pretty much what you’ve come to expect from the Munich-based designer,…
Since the release of Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986, graphic designer and educator Louise Sandhaus’…
In a world where “flat” web design is ever-present, it can be tough sometimes to tell the difference between a wireframe…
The first thing that strikes you about Diego Zambrano is his beard, a formidable work of facial hair impressive enough to…
Designing interactive websites with motion graphics? Awesome. Coding them? Not so much. The fact that motion design is quickly becoming…
The world of digital arts is constantly introducing new ways to to tell a story, yet the traditional book hasn’t evolved…
Unlike design firms that employ people with similar degrees and backgrounds, the 22-member team at HUSH is a curiously quirky,…
Soccer may be the national game in Brazil, but for Brazilian designer Andre do Amaral, life was all about digital design…
As magazines go through a seemingly unstoppable resurgence in popularity, questions still hover over their digital counterparts. Is a beautifully…
