Posted By: Nick Currie
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
European football club scarves are not so fashion-forward, but a clever knitting project remixes their type with style. Currie stitches together the story.
Posted By: Steven Heller
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Designers have developed a language for selling their wares, but why is so much of it so unintelligible? Heller critiques the lingua franca of promotional writing.
Posted By: Andrew Twigg
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Does the recipe for designing accessible websites have to skimp on beauty? Twigg wishes web type could look good and be good for you.
Posted By: David Barringer
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
What do we want? Even if we don’t know, it doesn’t stop us from acquiring more. Barringer expresses his desire for self-awareness and restraint.
Posted By: Steven Heller
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
How dangerous is it to make books? Heller finds out from the risk-taking proprietors of Purgatory Pie Press.
Posted By: Michael Dooley
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Self-proclaimed “commercial artist” Rian Hughes blurs the lines between comics, design and illustration, as well as visual eras. Dooley brings him into focus.
Posted By: Holly Willis
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, April 01, 2008
What connects the work of two seemingly incongruous designers, a generation apart? Willis visits the REDCAT gallery to explore the continuum.
Posted By: Ralph Caplan
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
What does it mean to be in design’s inner circle but not a designer? Caplan revels in his outsider status.
Posted By: Phil Patton
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, March 18, 2008
When it comes to working with color, is a limitless palette always a good thing? Patton observes the bold ways in which artists have used color out of the can.
Posted By: Steven Heller
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
What is black and white and brilliant all over? Heller casts a light on designer and illustrator Richard McGuire’s latest animation.
Posted By: Richard Anwyl
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Is the design world too focused on revering the new at the expense of preserving the past? Anwyl calls attention to one almost-lost design treasure.
Posted By: Milton Glaser
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Recently, at the symposium “Where the Truth Lies,” Milton Glaser pondered his role as an agent of propaganda. Here is his keynote address.
Posted By: Steven Heller
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
We all want a better world, but what are we willing to do to help? Heller looks to designer Alan Jacobson and his community-building efforts in Rwanda.
Posted By: Terry Lee Stone
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Do some designers have all the luck or could there be a better reason why they’re making headlines? Stone offers point-by-point advice on how to get media-ready.
Posted By: Phil Patton
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Has the ubiquity of those brilliantly colored bars rendered them unnoticeable? Not so for Patton, who sees test patterns everywhere he looks.
Posted By: Jandos Rothstein
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Dennis Publishing’s new online magazine helps guys channel their inner primate. And according to Rothstein, it’s also pushing the boundaries of the codex.
Posted By: Paul Shaw
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The changing (type) face of New York has been well documented by Paul Shaw. Here, our intrepid guide takes AIGA readers on a tour of Brooklyn.
Posted By: Ralph Caplan
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, January 15, 2008
What do design and magic have in common? Caplan reveals the shared practice of “what you don’t see is what you get.”
Posted By: Steven Heller
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Tuesday, January 08, 2008
What does the future hold for RISD and its next presidentdigital artist, designer, thinker and educator John Maeda? Heller goes to the source.
Posted By: David Barringer
Type of Post: Article
Date of Post: Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Isn’t nature, by design, the most perfect creator of all? Barringer explores the cold-blooded world of human-designed snakes, in which all that slithers is gold.
Last Updated: May 15, 2008
