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Amid Land Disputes, An Unconventional Map Preserves Practices of Secrecy in Indigenous Communities
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CD Sales Are Booming in the K-Pop World, Where Album Design Takes Center Stage
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When Did Design Stop Being “Multidisciplinary?”
Around the same time every year, half-way through the Spring semester, just as the pull of Summer begins, my students…...
Designer Rush Jackson on Making Work that Expands and Shapes the Black Cultural Lexicon
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Takenobu Igarashi Pushed the Parameters of Typography with His Hand-drawn 3D Letterforms
Japanese-born educator and designer Takenobu Igarashi’s 20-year creative career brought an architectural understanding of form and space to the world…...
Based on Lithuanian Folklore, the Cosmic ‘Aušrinė’ Blends Circle, Sun + Stars
Name: Aušrinė Designer: Mindaugas Gavrilovas, Studio Cryo Foundry: Beržulis Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Aušrinė is one of the…...
Design Affects Every Aspect of Life—Why Do We Still Struggle To Define It?
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How Designer, Activist + Historian David King Defined a Visual Style for the Left
David King had one of the most remarkable graphic design careers of the 20th century. If his name is unfamiliar,…...
The Publishing Collective One of My Kind Uses Zines as a Medium for Community Building
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. Surrounded by biryani…...
A Font Family Inspired by the “Beefy” Iron Letterforms On Manhole Covers
Name: Municipal Foundry: House Industries Designer: Typeface design by Ken Barber, Quentin Schmerber of Production Type, Teja Smrekar, and Ben…...
Why Is It So Challenging to Design an Ethical Cookie Consent Bar?
Pop-up notifications are like internet gnats. Software updates, loud banner ads, unwanted thumbnail videos set to autoplay—they crowd your field…...