Name: Women’s Car Repair Collective Designer: Nat Pyper Release: March 2020 with Library Stack Back Story: The Women’s Car Repair Collective…...
Celebrating Natalie Kalmus, the Color Director Behind Hollywood’s Early Technicolor Films
It’s been reported that when Dorothy first stepped out from her sepia, tornado-ravaged home into the multicolored wonderland of Munchkin…...
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.…...
A Growing Black Lives Matter Resource List for Designers and Humans
Throughout the last week, alongside condemnation of police brutality and racism, we’ve seen donation links, calls to action, guides for…...
Four Black Creatives on the Importance of Building and Cultivating Community
The creative technology industry has a diversity problem. Put differently, both industries—creative and technology—have some real work to do when…...
Celebrating the African-American Practitioners Absent From Way Too Many Classroom Lectures
‘As, Not For: Dethroning Our Absolutes’ is an exhibition of work by African-American graphic designers that seeks to “question, inspire, activate, and…...
Why Role Models Matter: Celebrating Women of Color in Design
Read any article or report about minorities within the design industry and you’ll come across the words “excluded,” “oppressed,” and…...
Martin Luther King’s Powerful Speeches, Captured In a Typeface
A sign of a great elocutionist is when you can hear their words echoing in your head, even if you’re…...
Sending Off Black History Month With 5 Designs from the AIGA Archives
As Black History Month comes to a close, we’re beginning something new on Eye on Design: asking archivists, librarians, curators,…...
Typography as a Radical Act in an Industry Ever-dominated by White Men
Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In…...
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…...
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…...