Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Company X announces a new logo with a buzzword-filled press release. We’ve been hard at work for months in rethinking how to best represent ourselves to our customers, it reads. We think this new logo reflects our values by signaling simplicity and approachability. Can you picture it? It’s a sans-serif wordmark (bonus...
A year into the pandemic, many of us are longing to do what once might have seemed mundane: leaf through the design section at the library, walk maskless through the galleries of a museum, or just spend a quiet afternoon at a local bookstore. For Valery Marier, a Toronto-based graphic design student in her final semester at the York/Sheridan Program...
Name: Outward Designer: Raoul Audouin Foundry: Velvetyne Release Date: March 2021 Back Story: When Amsterdam-raised graphic designer Raoul Audouin moved to Paris in 2016, he biked to different suburbs every weekend to buy second-hand furnishings for his new home. Finding the city hostile to cyclists, the designer improvised his own routes and discovered incredible buildings, squares, parks and neighborhoods forgotten...
In the week following the tragic shootings in Atlanta, and in the months beforehand amid a wave of violent attacks on those in the AAPI community, we’ve seen an outpouring of grief as well as a reckoning with the racism faced by Asian Americans. We’ve also seen calls to action, links to donate, resources to raise awareness, and shows of...
There’s a Burger King near my parent’s house in Newark, New Jersey with an oddly shaped drive-thru that positions cars at an inconvenient distance, say ten feet, from the squawk box and delivery window. To bridge this gap, a metal basket on a rod is used to shuttle food and change. A few years ago, the restaurant was renovated, but...
David Jon Walker is an assistant professor of graphic design at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, as well as principal of Rhealistic Design, a small design consultancy that specializes in special events for nonprofits and partners with small minority marketing agencies to help build their portfolios. He’s also one of 12 designers featured in Black, Brown + Latinx...
One of my favorite pieces by the artist Shannon Ebner is ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK, a work that comprises four flickering light boxes spelling out ASTER/SK over two lines. Each letter is made out of cinderblocks arranged on a gridded pegboard and photographed; the light behind them flashes in a choreographed sequence, illuminating over time the piece’s repetitious title. The modular...
The days are getting longer, the ground drier. Picnic season is upon us, and perhaps more than any other spring, eating outdoors is a welcome treat. This month, we’re bringing you a selection of sleek cans that all contain various degrees of buzz — from carbonation to fermentation. And the outsides aren’t bad, either....
Kathleen Sleboda’s work traverses disciplines, often involving acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. Sleboda has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 2020, and at Rhode Island School of Design since 2017, where she co-designed the stand-out course Newly Formed with her partner and frequent collaborator, Christopher. Sleboda is a principal of Gluekit, where her collages and illustrations...
This piece was originally published in 2019 in Eye on Design magazine’s “Worth” issue. It has been updated to reflect changes in statistics and at the studios since its original publication date. When I first spoke to Greg Mihalko, one of three partners at the NYC design studio Partner & Partners, in 2019, he was knee-deep in the legal language...
At the beginning of 2021, type designer and typographer Julius Hui launched a crowdfunding campaign for Ku Mincho, a Ming-style typeface he began concepting six years ago. The initial goal of four million NTD (a little under $150,000) was reached in only a few hours. To date, he’s raised more than five times that amount—indicating both an excitement and a...
In 2018, the musician and writer Claire L. Evans began cataloguing examples of an increasingly ubiquitous style of editorial illustration she calls “Corporate Memphis,” a winking reference to the vibrant, patterned abstraction popularized by the Memphis Group in the 1980s. By now you know the style: A woman whooshes past on tiny white roller skates, a periwinkle leg twice the...
