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On Breaking Down Power Structures, Navigating Tokenism + Building Community in Design Education
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Amid COVID-19 Restrictions, Restaurant Branding Extends Beyond the Dining Room
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“One Design, Two Flavors”—Lyon Arabic Brings a New Slant to Traditional Characters
Name: Lyon Arabic Designers: Arabic: Khajag Apelian and Wael Morcos. Latin: Kai Bernau. Foundry: Commercial Type Release Date: July 2020…...
Kristýna Kulíková Has Built a Body of Work Many Designers Dream of—and She’s Still an Undergrad
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Japanese Boro Textiles Tell Histories of Labor and Love Through Patchwork
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Design Criticism Is Everywhere—Why Are We Still Looking For It?
We graphic designers have a love-hate relationship with criticism. We say we want more of it and then complain when…...
Decades Later, India’s First Graphic Novel Has Found a Cult Following
Tucked into a quiet corner of Orijit Sen’s studio lies a dog-eared copy of River of Stories, one of the…...
How Designers Are Adapting Magazine Design For the Digital Sphere
When publications first went digital a couple of decades back, their designs more or less aped the print format, in…...
How Democrats Designed Branding for the First Virtual National Convention
When the 2020 Democratic National Convention scrapped its usual plans for a large-scale, in-person event for a mostly virtual one,…...