Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
In an ocean of Squarespace sites and Behance portfolios, it can be easy to forget that there are limitless ways to represent your work. Not all of them require custom coding, or even fancy images. In fact, some of the most compelling portfolios we’ve seen use what you could call “off-the-rack” solutions that designers have taken advantage of to bring...
The first step to getting work is building an impressive portfolio. The second step is less obvious: pitching your portfolio, and yourself. The perfect pitch—does such a thing exist? It depends on who you ask, so we asked five art directors, each hailing from a different set of coordinates across the media and publishing landscape. How do they find and...
In the latest of our Under the Covers series looking at records and their design, we looked at how how French electro duo justice turned the cross symbol into a third band member. Here, we speak to some of the designers behind the more recent releases from the legend that is Sun Ra. Few artists have embodied gesamtkunstwerk, or a “total...
Throughout the last decade, the nonprofit and branding universes have intersected to the point where it’s no longer surprising to find the two words in the same sentence. For some designers, that overlap has become the foundation for a whole portfolio of work that focuses on nonprofit-centric projects. Designers working in this space are handed a laundry list of constraints—small...
Air raid sirens echoed through the streets of Belgrade. Olivera Stojadinović was designing fonts. It was 1999, and the NATO-initiated bombing of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War was underway. The decade was a turbulent period for the country which saw its dissolution under the presidency of Slobodan Milošević, who died in 2006 before the verdict of his trial for war...
Homie House Press is an independent photo book publisher based out of Baltimore that seeks to “hold space for and with underrepresented communities.” Their output may be small but everything they publish is *so good*—and we’re also big fans of their design aesthetic, all of which is done in house. We asked Caterina Ragg and Adriana Monsalve, HHP co-founders, to...
Did you know that La Croix was founded 40 years ago in Wisconsin? If you squint a little, you can see that, but the brand itself has become commonplace to the point that it’s surpassed any kind of Midwestern specificity. It can seem risky to tie the branding of a beverage to a specific time or place. But in an...
Name: Brik Designer: Michael Bagnardi Foundry: TDF/BurnType Release Date: June 2021 Back Story: Sometimes, you just have to kill your darlings. Brik was initially released in 2018 (and EoD covered it here), yet Bagnardi wasn’t fully satisfied with several aspects of it. So he redrew it this year—completely. As in, total overhaul. “I’ve learned a lot more about type over...
Zara Arshad is a researcher, curator and design historian who specializes in 20th and 21st-century material and visual culture from East Asia. Arshad earned her Master’s Degree in the History of Design at Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), and is currently completing her PhD between the University of Brighton and V&A where she is researching the museum’s...
About a year and a half ago, peaceful protests broke out across India against the discriminatory government policies–specifically, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)–that targeted non-Hindus, especially Muslims, and jeopardized their right to Indian citizenship. The announcement of the two laws, which underscored the rise of neo-fascism in India, triggered the country’s longest period...
When the pandemic hit and museums and galleries closed their doors, many were forced to quickly adapt their programming to keep speaking with their audiences despite the enforced physical separation. You don’t need me to tell you these results have been a mixed bag: from insightful lectures to slideshows masquerading as exhibitions; poor connections to racist zoom-bombers; poorly-attended livestreams to...
Name: Gravity Designer: Robert Janes Foundry: Dinamo Release Date: Around October 2021 (though can be downloaded by designers on request in Dinamo’s Early Access section now) Back Story: Dinamo’s type designer and engineer Rob Janes began working on Gravity as soon as he joined the team in Berlin (having moved there from Melbourne) three years ago to take control of...
