design : speak

04/07/2020

Excited!

Richard Nixon became embroiled in the Watergate scandal in 1974, which caused him to become the only U.S. President to resign the office. In that same year the first handheld cellular phone call was made, “The Godfather, Part II” won best movie of the year at the Academy Awards, and Secretariat ...

03/24/2020

“Logos look a little different when they practice social distancing.”

Logos look a little different when they practice social distancing.

03/11/2020

These page-turners are worth judging by the cover.

03/07/2020

Don’t give off a blurry impression with your social media images.

01/31/2020

“... Design is no longer the differentiator it once was.”

Jony Ive is a brilliant designer. He helped bring Apple back from a near death experience with the original iMac and iBooks and, later, MacBooks. But he also accounted for a number of costly flops, that, while Apple would never admit it, would have sunk even more accomplished executives.

01/28/2020

In a creative landscape awash with maximalism, “acid graphics,” and “ugly design”—all of which I personally love—sometimes you need something a little more classic, timeless, and understated to balance out the delicious lunacy and noise of it all. This is exactly what Paris-based graphic...

12/21/2019

Annual review of the most interesting typefaces of the year, as individually selected by graphic designers, type designers, and scholars.

12/02/2019

Google has digitized over 10,000 artworks and objects, as well as launched virtual tours, proving that the Bauhaus is the world’s design school.

06/20/2019

Nontsikelelo Mutiti is a Zimbabwe-born interdisciplinary artist and educator who works across fine art, design, and social practice. Mutiti co-founded Black Chalk & Co., where she produces cultural projects and events, and Reading Zimbabwe, a platform for archiving and publishing. She currently

06/07/2019

Time Pablo Ferro got the exposure he deserves. For my students with love.

05/31/2019

“Suddenly, I realized that the people next to me might be severely impacted by my work.”

There’s no shortage of content, manifestos, and opinions these days on how design can be evil. But if they’ve left you feeling more frustrated than empowered, wishing for practical, rea…

05/29/2019

Still... “For some reason, unlike any other industry we know of, non-creative folk have this idea that artists and designers like to do stuff for free. Actually, we do know why, it's 'for the exposure', right?

Wrong. It's a misconception that has plagued the design industry since the beginning of time, and one which, quite rightly, gets on every creative professional's last nerve. In fact it's a cause of such frustration that many artists over the years have used their creative prowess to express exactly how they feel about it.“

New currency design likens working for exposure as a steaming pile of turd.

03/24/2019

A group of designers have reworked famous logos to celebrate 100 years of the art school.

09/10/2018

In today’s political climate, designers are vocally, visually, demonstratively setting about using their talents for the greater good. There’s a palpable sense that this mass movement toward social design started with the 2016 presidential election. A number of communities, both online and offli...

08/09/2018

Of interest

So far, Simoul Alva’s graphic design career has taken her from her birthplace in Mumbai, India, to Paris, Abu Dhabi, Russia, and now to New York, interning on Michael Bierut’s team at Pentagram. That’s a lot for any career; it’s pretty staggering when you consider that she’s yet to graduat...

08/09/2018

Of interest

As the 2018 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Gail Anderson (a 2008 AIGA Medalist) has once again proven that she’s a force to be reckoned with. Since she graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1984, Anderson has worked as an art director at Rolling Stone, the Bos...

06/30/2018

Interesting

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