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When Artificial Intelligence Becomes an Artform
Computers have a language. Not zeros and ones or binary code—though that’s a language, too—but a visual vernacular that helps humans make the connection that, yes, a computer was here and it made its...
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How Good Design Helped U.S. National Parks Flourish
Yellowstone National Park spans 3,472 square miles, cutting across Wyoming and bits of Montana and Idaho. All told, it takes up more land than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. And yet, for the first...
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The Futuristic Gleam of “Liquid Metal” is Everywhere Right Now—Here’s Why
Welcome to Spotted, Eye on Design’s new column that turns an eye (ahem) on the styles and graphic trends you’re seeing everywhere. To kick things off, we’re looking at “liquid metal,” the glinting 3D...
View ArticleThree Boisterous Beers and an Elegant Wine Thrown in for Good Measure
Welcome back to Happy Hour, the time of the month where we take a moment to admire the best in booze branding. This month we have a veritable bar’s worth of good stuff for your drinking—and...
View ArticleThe Trick to Recession-proofing Your Design Practice? Try Something New
This story is the first in a series that explores the results of the 2019 Design Census. In 2008, Katie Denton was three years out of college, working at a small branding studio in New York City....
View ArticleHere’s an Idea—Only Take on Freelance Work You’d Want to Do at 1 a.m.
If you talk to Matt Dorfman, there’s a solid chance music might come up—from his solo design practice, Metalmother, named after a Guided by Voices song, to his love of Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye to what...
View ArticleAll the Questions Our Parents Asked While Watching Netflix’s Abstract With...
Early in his episode of Abstract, the Netflix series about design, Jonathan Hoefler describes the act of type design as a sleight of hand. It’s the job of typographers like himself, he explains, to pay...
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The Over-the-Top Artistry of Ghana’s Painted Movie Posters
As part of her preparation for a new exhibition of vintage hand-painted Ghanain movie posters, Poster House chief curator Angelina Lippert scoured eBay to buy video cassette copies of the action and...
View ArticleBold Beers, Colorful Wine Lables + a Pleasingly Sophisticated Approach to...
Welcome back to Happy Hour! This month we’re featuring a colorful array of packaging that ranges from illustrative beer cans to high-class bottles for elegant sipping. Read on to see the best in booze...
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Overheard on Design Twitter: the Existence of Design Twitter, Trendy Brexit,...
Our first installment of this column really seems to have struck a chord—or maybe a nerve?—after it debuted last week. We’ve noticed a sharp uptick in tweets about Design Twitter. Yes, it’s all very...
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Researchers Want to Help You Design More Successful Logos, But Do They Have...
There’s a joke often told in the design world that goes something along the lines of this: “The client came back to us and said, that’s great, but can you make the logo bigger?” [Cue knowing laughter.]...
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It’s Not Just You—the Neon Glow of “Terminal Green” Really is Ubiquitous
Welcome to Spotted, Eye on Design’s new column that turns an eye (ahem) on the styles and graphic trends you’re seeing everywhere. Last time we looked at “liquid metal,” the glinting 3D texture...
View ArticleBeautiful Booze Bottles Fit for Your Thanksgiving Table
Welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of Happy Hour. You might already be a bottle of wine deep into the day (no shame), but we’re here to celebrate that overindulgence with a few more alcoholic...
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How Computer Code Became a Modern Design Medium—an Oral History
Code is a tool—a string of numbers, glyphs, and letters that when arranged in a particular order can be wielded like a screwdriver. But code is a visual medium, too, like illustration or sculpting,...
View ArticleThree Boisterous Beers and an Elegant Wine Thrown in for Good Measure
Welcome back to Happy Hour, the time of the month where we take a moment to admire the best in booze branding. This month we have a veritable bar’s worth of good stuff for your drinking—and...
View ArticleDesigners, This Is How to Speak “Computer” While Still Speaking “Human”
John Maeda exists in a Venn diagram of disciplines. Part designer, part computer scientist, he bends steadfastly into the oddly shaped middle loop of overlap. When Maeda started out in the design and...
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The Year in Design: 5 Trends that Defined 2019
We’ll start this story with a disclaimer: It’s hard (impossible, really) to encapsulate all of the aesthetic whims that happen over the course of the year. Yet, as design writers part of our job is to...
View ArticleWeird Wines, Soothing CBD Cider + a Classic Brew Gets a Design Upgrade
You might be all alcohol’d out by now, but that’s not going to stop us from presenting you with some truly excellent drinks-related branding this month. The December edition of Happy Hour is here, and...
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A Brushstroke-based Variable Font Taken to Its Extreme
Name: Recursive Designer: Stephen Nixon Foundry: Arrow Type Release Date: Beta version is available to download now via Github. Google Fonts version available soon. Backstory: While finishing up his...
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A Modern Sans-serif Infused With the Spirit of the NYC Subway
Name: Söhne Designer: Kris Sowersby Foundry: Klim Release Date: December 2019 Backstory: Söhne dates back to the first time Kris Sowersby, the founder of New Zealand foundry Klim, visited New York...
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