Weekend Heller: AIGA’s Ink on Paper
Over the past three years, AIGA’s Eye on Design blog has offered a fresh and intelligent perspective on the world’s most exciting designers and the issues they care about. With an approach that’s...
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Weekend Heller: Print Goes Unprint
As many already know, Print is ceasing its printed magazine and retaining an online presence. Once there were many graphic design and printing arts journals in the U.S.; the number has diminished....
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Retype’s Modern Interpretation of François Guyot’s Type
Enter PRINT’s Regional Design Awards for your chance to see your work in an all-new book by PRINT, and to win a Big Ticket to HOW Design Live, a main-stage trophy presentation and other exclusive...
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The Rebel ‘B’
The main gate of Auschwitz I concentration camp reads “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” (work makes you free) and was made in metal by camp prisoners who risked punishment or worse by placing a hidden message in the...
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Weekend Heller: Machiavelli on a Well-Ordered Republic
Register today for the free course “5 Skills Every Design Needs to Know.” Before you read this document below, here’s the backstory: Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus fame had a love of books, design...
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Tiger Rag: Attitudes toward Hyphenation and Rag Settings
Register today for the free course “5 Skills Every Design Needs to Know.” Paul Shaw investigates the history of justified, flush left, and rag right settings, and takes a look at contemporary...
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When Progress Propagates Like Yeast
Register today for the free course “5 Skills Every Design Needs to Know.” In 1948 the designer, typographer and illustrator (and sometime curmudgeon) Thomas Maitland Cleland (1880–1964) gave a talk at...
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Howard Chaykin Comics: Unpretentious, Unadulterated Fun
Learn how a digital artist prepares 3D character animations in Autodesk Maya Finally! There’s a smart, insightful book that critically examines the works one of America’s most important comics...
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Comic-Con’s Eisner Judging and the New “Comics & Design Awards”
By: Michael Dooley Forget about who’ll walk away with Eisner Awards on Friday at San Diego’s Comic-Con. Sure, there’ll be worthy winners. In my feature on Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters,...
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Design Expert’s 10 Coffee Table Book Recommendations
Curated by Daniel Dejan, Print and Creative Manager at Sappi North America Coffee table books are having a moment, and as a lifelong creative with a deep love and appreciation for good design, quality...
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Deleted By Fascists, Now Undeleted by Design
Vuk Ćosić is a Slovenian contemporary artist associated with the net. art movement commemorates the Jews murdered during the Holocaust in Ljubljana. The project is called “Undeleted” uses photos of...
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Citizenship, Now More Than Ever
Inspired by Charles and Ray Eames’ film “Power of Ten,” a new book by Inventory Press, Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from Body to Cosmos edited by Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch,...
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Prem Krishnamurthy’s K-Komma Experiment
Prem Krishnamurthy is based in Berlin and New York City. He was a founding principal of design studio Project Projects, winner of the Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award, and is currently partner and...
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The Cemetery Of Banned Books
While Kuwait was once seen as a regional enclave of intellectual freedom, it now struggles with censorship and an unprecedented increase in book banning. In August 2018, the government acknowledged...
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Immaterial Design: Harsh Notes on the New Gmail Design
The new Gmail design impacted 1.4 billion users worldwide last fall. From the new design’s large, bubble-shaped attributes and “intuitive” (or maybe intrusive and patronizing?) additions – like...
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Is Design Thinking Really Bullshit? Thoughts from Marty Neumeier
Last June, Pentagram partner Natasha Jen gave a main-stage presentation to a rapt audience of 1,000 at Adobe’s 99U conference in New York City. Her talk was engaging, funny, and brought forth some...
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53 Thoughts from HOW Design Live
HOW Design Live gets better and better every year. The incredible energy, the incredible speakers, the nearly-overwhelming sense of inspiration and camaraderie—all of it makes for an experience that’s...
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A New York State of Design: How NYC Became the Design Capital of the World
Location, location: How did the Big Apple become the world’s premier design hub—and does it still hold the title? The fantasy goes something like this: You arrive in New York City and start at the...
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The Legacy of Type Design History
While rummaging through my old, forgotten type history files, I came across a cache of American Printing History Association newsletters. This one from 1988 includes a fascinating biographical essay on...
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The Daily Heller: Mind Over Blather,* Language-Wise
Every field or “space” has its professional lingo or blather (*with thanks to Russell Baker). Sometimes it filters into the vernacular space and is adopted in the public space (like “A-OK,” “roger...
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