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How Can We Teach More Students How to Design With AI?
11/07/2020

How Can We Teach More Students How to Design With AI?

The fear that automation is replacing actual design skills has been widely debunked. AI is still coming, of course—it’s just not coming for our jobs. Rather, it will provide designers with a 21st-century skill set, allowing them to integrate applications of AI like machine learning into their cu...

Dani Balenson Takes Us Through the Growing Pains of Moving to San Francisco
09/07/2020

Dani Balenson Takes Us Through the Growing Pains of Moving to San Francisco

“Weekend With” is a series that explores the world of design through the eyes of a designer on their days off. Our last installment took us to Mumbai, where we dodged the city’s traffic to tour the secret hangouts of Bollywood set designers and vintage Indian screen print collectors with the f...

A Typeface That Shifts from Trendy Bitmap Lettering to Cheeky Organic Curves
07/07/2020

A Typeface That Shifts from Trendy Bitmap Lettering to Cheeky Organic Curves

Name: Unknown Type Designer: Lukas Haider and Alexander Raffl Release Date: March 3, 2020 Backstory: Lukas Haider and Alexander Raffl met while working at the Viennese graphic design studio Great. It was during the initial concept phase for an unrelated project that they first sowed the seeds U

Women Make Up Over Half the Design Industry—So Why Are There So Few at the Top?
05/07/2020

Women Make Up Over Half the Design Industry—So Why Are There So Few at the Top?

This article was originally published in 2018 in the “Worth” issue of Eye on Design magazine. We’re republishing it today in honor of Equal Pay Day. Picture your favorite font. What do you see? The shapes and contours that inspire and excite you, or the person who designed it? Let’s say you ...

How Are Outdated Notions of Masculinity Affecting the Design Industry?
03/07/2020

How Are Outdated Notions of Masculinity Affecting the Design Industry?

In these strange and uncertain times, it’s more important than ever that we speak up about creative industry mental health issues in a clear, no-BS way. It’s a topic we’ve long covered at Eye on Design, and recently, we’ve noticed a growing number of mental health initiatives in the design w...

What Role Does Design Play in a Public Health Crisis?
01/07/2020

What Role Does Design Play in a Public Health Crisis?

Whether employed to warn or impart information about symptoms, prevention, and infection, graphic design plays a significant role in the front-line response to infectious disease, making life-saving messages accessible to all. Examples of this can be seen in the bold graphics used to raise awareness

Under the Covers: M.I.A.’s Arular Proves That Great Design Isn’t All About Understanding Photoshop
29/06/2020

Under the Covers: M.I.A.’s Arular Proves That Great Design Isn’t All About Understanding Photoshop

This is the second in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album with a seminal design approach to match. We kicked off the series with Kraftwerk, and the krautrock band’s iconic, mysterious Autobahn motorway graphics. When West London rapper/singer/visual

The Revived Turn-of-the-century Typeface Combining French Elegance + Art Nouveau Frivolity
27/06/2020

The Revived Turn-of-the-century Typeface Combining French Elegance + Art Nouveau Frivolity

Name: Romain 20 Designer: Alice Savoie Foundry: 205TF Release Date: March 2020 Back Story: Classy serif revival font Romain 20, by independent type designer and researcher Alice Savoie, has been in the works for eight years now and has finally launched through type foundry 205TF. The idea for t

Behind the Psychedelic Scenes of New Netflix Series The Midnight Gospel
25/06/2020

Behind the Psychedelic Scenes of New Netflix Series The Midnight Gospel

On April 20, Netflix released The Midnight Gospel, an eight-episode, psycho-cosmic adventure spun by the brilliant minds of Pendleton Ward—of Adventure Time fame—and comedian Duncan Trussell (whose podcast, Duncan Trussell Family Hour, set the tone for the show). The outlandish, brain-melter of ...

I’m A Design Student—What Happens Next?
23/06/2020

I’m A Design Student—What Happens Next?

A previous version of this story included advice from a seventh educator, which has since been deleted. We understand our responsibility to design students to give clear, unequivocal advice, and we hope this update reflects that. There’s always a level of uncertainty that comes with entering th

Netflix’s UX Design is Keeping Us Up at Night
21/06/2020

Netflix’s UX Design is Keeping Us Up at Night

Netflix is keeping us awake. I’m not talking about its latest gameshow Awake: The Million Dollar Game, where contestants must stay awake for 24 hours while repeating tedious challenges in order to win mountains of cash—though what I am talking about is oddly similar in its combination of money, ...

Finding the Blank Spots in Big Data
19/06/2020

Finding the Blank Spots in Big Data

Mimi Onuoha is an artist who works mostly with algorithms, data sets, and digital systems, but her best known work may be a file cabinet. White, metal, and unassuming, it’s the kind that used to line the carpeted halls of office buildings before the advent of Google Drive and iCloud. Sliding open ...

Calm Technology Is Staging a Comeback—Can Good Design Make it Stick?
17/06/2020

Calm Technology Is Staging a Comeback—Can Good Design Make it Stick?

Last week I made progress. I was down 20 minutes. Instead of spending an average of three hours a day looking at my phone, I’d only spent two hours and forty minutes. It was a victory celebrated in slim margins: I’d shaved off time by logging out of Instagram. I checked Twitter only from my lapt...

AI Has a Real Environmental Impact—Here’s How Designers Are Handling It
15/06/2020

AI Has a Real Environmental Impact—Here’s How Designers Are Handling It

One of the foundational materials of computer science is an endless piece of tape. “An unlimited memory capacity obtained in the form of an infinite tape, marked out into squares,” is how Alan Turing described his 1936 mathematical model and the forefather of the computer. According to Turing’...

In Singapore, Residents Create a Social Distancing Wayfinding Language With Tape
14/06/2020

In Singapore, Residents Create a Social Distancing Wayfinding Language With Tape

Dots. Lines. Crosses. Boxes. They have popped up all across Singapore over the past few weeks. Plastered over furniture, floors, and more, the city-state renowned for its cleanliness and order has become a maze of symbols, in order to defend its inhabitants from the COVID-19 pandemic. This “mess.....

BallPill is What a Font Looks Like When its Designer’s on the Rebound
14/06/2020

BallPill is What a Font Looks Like When its Designer’s on the Rebound

Name: BallPill Designer: Benoît Bodhuin (specimens printed by Quintal Éditions) Release Date: March 2020 Back Story: French type designer Benoît Bodhuin created BallPill in the space of just a few months, starting in December last year. The typeface draws on some of his previous projects, incl

Illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli on Creativity, Routines, and Why Reading a Book Is the Ultimate Form of Inspiration
13/06/2020

Illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli on Creativity, Routines, and Why Reading a Book Is the Ultimate Form of Inspiration

On the day of my interview with Olimpia Zagnoli—via FaceTime from London—I take a peek at the celebrated 36-year-old illustrator’s Instagram. Her latest story, showcasing her neighbor sunbathing on the balcony below her own, alerts me to the fact that Milan has been in lockdown for one month a...

Fleur Cowles and the Making of Flair, History’s Most Beautiful Magazine
13/06/2020

Fleur Cowles and the Making of Flair, History’s Most Beautiful Magazine

“Most women married to rich men hope for a yacht or racehorses or more jewels,” the legendary editor Fleur Cowles, then 88 years old, wrote in her 1996 memoir, She Made Friends and Kept Them. “But what I secretly longed for was the opportunity to create a ‘magazine-jewel’ which would refle...

What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?
13/06/2020

What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?

“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize that while the terms are linked, they shouldn’t be confused. Diversity is about bringing more people to the table. Decolonization is ab...

Design’s Role in Activism Can Go Deeper Than Posters and T-Shirts
12/06/2020

Design’s Role in Activism Can Go Deeper Than Posters and T-Shirts

We first read this piece, written by Dori Tunstall, the dean of design at OCAD University in Toronto, in a publication produced by the L.A.-based non-profit Women’s Center for Creative Work (which we wrote about for the site). Originally titled “Seven Principles of Designing Conditions for Commu...

In the Late ’70s in the Bronx, PHASE 2’s Party Flyers Created a Visual Language for Hip-Hop
12/06/2020

In the Late ’70s in the Bronx, PHASE 2’s Party Flyers Created a Visual Language for Hip-Hop

In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams. In abandoned buildings packed with people, a group of DJs developed techniques like sampling, breakbeats, scratching, cutting, and backspinning. But news of a jam didn’t spread by w...

Designing an Experimental Technology Curriculum By—and For—Black Creatives
12/06/2020

Designing an Experimental Technology Curriculum By—and For—Black Creatives

Somewhere along the long timeline of human existence, society began associating innovation with speed: faster cars, rapid test results, instant messaging. In today’s hyper-digital landscape, trends go viral overnight then leave the zeitgeist just as quickly. But just as some creations—like high-...

Can We Teach Graphic Design History Without the Cult of Hero Worship?
12/06/2020

Can We Teach Graphic Design History Without the Cult of Hero Worship?

Let’s engage in a thought experiment. Think about what you know about graphic design history. Then omit all mention of design heroes. Try for a moment not to think about the objects of design. Consider instead the kinds of social forces that surround design as a practice: labor, technology, or pol...

Ancient Greeks Built Memory Palaces In Their Minds—Now You Can Build One Online
12/06/2020

Ancient Greeks Built Memory Palaces In Their Minds—Now You Can Build One Online

Recall, if you can, the home of a childhood friend. The house need not belong to your best childhood friend. In fact, it’s easier to explain the method of loci if the friendship was short lived, because the point is that you can probably still see the layout of that house in your mind’s eye: the...

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