Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Earlier this year in May, a three minute long video captured the collective attention of the fashion world. It was already a few months into the global lockdowns, and the industry had begun bracing itself for the ‘phygital’ shows expected to soon be flooding the feeds, but nothing had quite prepared the internet for the digital unveiling of Hanifa’s Pink...
This story was originally published in 2019 in the “Distraction” issue of Eye on Design magazine. In 1983, a computer programmer named John Socha created what is considered by most to be the first screensaver. The program, called SCRNSAVE, was barely a program at all—after three minutes of inactivity, it turned the screen into a blank, black square. At...
Punch line. Political statement. Conversation piece. Souvenir. From the campaign trail to the rock tour, the pin-back button occupies a fascinating, wide-reaching, and largely undocumented place in American popular history. Social media is today’s most popular platform for self-expression, but the button preceded it as a way to tell others what was on your mind or as a tool to...
Isabel Seiffert is one-half of Offshore Studio, along with Christoph Miler, a design studio based in Zurich, Switzerland. Seiffert engages an active teaching practice alongside her studio work, leading courses and workshops at HKB (University of the Arts Bern), Zurich University of the Arts, HGK Basel, HEAD Geneve, Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin, and F+F (School for Art and Design...
During the coronavirus pandemic, the United States Postal Service’s pre-existing financial hardships came to a tipping point as President Donald Trump rejected a much-needed government bailout of the national institution. This, along with priority mail delays, mailing blunders, and internal structural changes implemented under Postmaster General Louis Dejoy challenged the USPS’ status as a trustworthy public institution during an intense...
Name: LL Heymland Designer: Yevgeniy Anfalov Foundry: Lineto Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Yevgeniy Anfalov began work on what was to become LL Heymland back in the summer of 2018, after being commissioned to propose a design for a “gastronomic guidebook.” He wanted to use a lightweight type style that would completely fill double page spreads, and after searching for...
Six years ago, back in 2014, I had the chance to sit down with Enzo Mari at his Milanese home. As with all former architecture and design students in Milan, I considered Mari a founding figure, a mythological man who set the basis of a specific approach to design, something every student at the Politecnico di Milano could relate to....
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. What’s a week anyway? By the numbers, it’s seven days, 168 hours, or 10,080 minutes tidily packaged into a set amount of time that is agreed on by most everyone. However, for one brief but disorienting moment, a week meant something entirely different...
This past May, as footage of the uprisings around the nation and the world began to flood my social media feeds, I felt emotionally exhausted by the weight of seeing Black and brown bodies murdered by the people meant to protect us. I also felt exhausted knowing that Black disabled bodies would be excluded from the conversations around police brutality that...
It’s no longer possible to shrug off the climate crisis as a problem we can deal with at some vague point in the future. It’s here now, and it’s arguably the most urgent issue of our time. In this year alone, we’ve witnessed communities around the world struggle with massive wildfires, devastating drought, and rising sea levels, all on top...
This is the second installment in a series of articles that each focus on a summer school, residency, or alternate education model that seem particularly relevant to designers. The hope is that together, these articles will give a broader view of non-traditional schools and designers invested in continued learning. Last time, we looked at the summer school Ellipsis Open School...
In the essay that accompanied the program for their show I’m Not Trying To Change Anything, I’m Just Changing (2019), Sonnenzimmer writes, “As we formulate … our split identities, stuck between our anthropometric physical selves and digital avatars, the screen is where these poles briefly commingle.” This serious but playful acknowledgement of the rift between the physical self and digital...
