When Lesley Carter*, 26, first saw the salaries listed in the Graphic Design Salary Transparency Spreadsheet in January 2020, she…

Two things about capitalism: graphic design is totally bound up with it; and it really has to end.  You won’t…

In an episode of the beloved animated 1960s sci-fi sitcom The Jetsons, Mrs. Jetson decides that housework is becoming too…

In the United States, the presence of the universal recycling icon on a product might lead an unassuming consumer to…

This op-ed was collaboratively penned by Design Action Collective and Partner & Partners. Design Action Collective is a cooperative design…

The late Ken Garland’s First Things First manifesto, written in 1963 on the spur of the moment during a public…

The face of biotech has no face at all.  It doesn’t have a spine. It doesn’t have complex organs. Hell,…

When the first issue of Tradeswomen first appeared in subscribers’ mailboxes in 1980, they were “delighted,” said Molly Martin, its…

In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams.…

There’s a quote, perhaps apocryphal, from Massimo Vignelli that you’ll sometimes hear from alumni of Cranbrook Academy of Art’s design…

Code is a tool—a string of numbers, glyphs, and letters that when arranged in a particular order can be wielded…

I met Bahia Shehab about a year ago at a conference on contemporary Arab graphic design in New York. A…

The best fashion magazines are often the ones that transport readers to other worlds. It’s not just about the clothes…

In Germany during the 1930s, there was just one lifestyle magazine that every young woman had to have. An essential…

“If I hear the phrase ‘Summer of Love’ one more time, I will scream,” says Louise Sandhaus from her design…

In the early ’70s, artist, publisher, and activist Raja Dhale published a pocket-sized magazine called Chakravarty for thirteen consecutive days. …