As gender-neutral pronouns become more commonplace in spoken language, they haven’t yet found a secure perch in written text. With…

For as long as non-designers have needed to create design-centric work, there have been tools and services that help them…

Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a…

Name: Arras Designer: Barrett Reid-Maroney Release Date: August 2021  Back Story: “Suit the action to the word, the word to…

Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (designed by Random House’s Rachel Ake Keuch) has been one of the most consequential pieces of…

Name: Pimpit Designer: Benoît Bodhuin  Foundry: BB Bureau Release Date: June 2021 Back Story:  Nantes-based graphic designer and typographer Benoît Bodhuin first…

For more than four decades, Terry Irwin, one of this year’s AIGA Medalists, has been a formative figure in design…

The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…

For Eiko Ishioka, one of Japan’s most groundbreaking designers, creativity was an amorphous, fluid medium that she dipped into, gently…

Ritu Ghiya is an artist, designer, and web developer. She helps design Sounds About Riso, a risograph fair founded by…

Name: BN Grimer Designer: Brandon Nickerson Foundry: Brandon Nickerson Studio Release Date: June 22, 2021 Back Story “A font’s main…

The design industry can feel like a black box, especially when it comes to finding a job and getting paid.…