In 2013 Craig Oldham produced In Loving Memory of Work, a hard-hitting account of the 1984-5 miner’s strike in Yorkshire,…
No contemporary illustrator puts joy to paper with such exuberance and ease as the Dutch Jordy van den Nieuwendijk. Known…
Working out of Brooklyn, Ping Zhu is known for her gorgeous, wispy editorial illustrations that feature regularly in the pages of The…
Working as part of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell’s renowned Hipgnosis studio, George Hardie was responsible for designing some of…
Illustrator extraordinaire Olimpia Zagnoli lives in Milan, listens to T. Rex, wears a lot of stripes, and drinks copious amounts…
The CV and client list of graphic designer, illustrator, and art director Timothy Goodman will likely inspire yearning, if not outright…
AIGA Medalist Alexander Isley graduated from college in 1984—the same year Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer—and so he…
Internationally renowned graphic designer, typographer, and type designer Erik Spiekermann is notorious for his no-bullshit attitude; for founding Fontshop, the…
Before Steven Heller authored over 170 books on design and visual culture, before his column for the New York Times…
Name: Export Designer: Jesse Ragan Foundry: XYZ Type Release Date: May 2017 Back story: It all began the night Ragan was strolling through Chinatown and…
A truly international designer, Pouya Ahmadi’s work has taken him all the way from his native Tehran, Iran, to Switzerland, and finally to Chicago, where…
Ahh, “authentic,” everyone’s favorite new buzz word. But before more ill-informed marketing spoils it for us all, let’s take a look back at the…
Welcome to Twofer Type Tuesday, where you can feast your eyes upon a pair of experimental typefaces created by Vincent Fileccia. Virginia is a…
Peel back the turquoise-and-yellow cover of Banana issue 3 and you’ll find an energetic assortment of “all things AZN,” as its…
As an editorial resident here at AIGA, I spend heaps of time on the internet scouring social media and websites for the…
Four sure signs you’re at a book launch: polite murmurings, air kisses, indecipherable canapés, and clinking glasses of bubbly. Four other signs:…
What do you do if you’re offered a well paid, even half-decent job straight out of art school? In an…
Post-school, it’s not often that you’re afforded an excuse to plumb the depths of a topic like color theory or…
“I don’t really subscribe to the notion of the designer as a problem solver; sure, finding the solution to a…
Like a magician who’s keen to keep the tricks of their trade a secret, German illustrator and designer Nadine Kolodziey feels vulnerable…
You wouldn’t necessarily think a woman who owns her own company—especially an in-demand design studio that works with some of the brightest…