What do you do if you’re offered a well paid, even half-decent job straight out of art school? In an…
Slovakian illustrator Martina Paukova’s work consists of jam-packed but mundane scenes filled with lanky characters, often rendered in a modern…
London-based design agency A Practice For Everyday Life (more often known as APFEL) has spent the past 14 years garnering…
Senior designer at the Walker Art Center, Ryan Gerald Nelson first discovered the institution’s design department during his time as a…
Jon Forss founded Non-Format with design partner Kjell Ekhorn in London in 2000. Since then, the creative duo has worked as a…
Unapologetic design provocateur Richard Turley’s work always shows a deft engagement with the times we live in. His occasionally iconoclastic…
London-based designer and creative wunderkind Karl Toomey isn’t a cruel man by nature, but his route into the design industry,…
Emphatic monochrome lettering, interlacing type, and a cool and current sense of Swiss minimalism characterize New York-based designer Jessica Svendsen’s striking portfolio.…
These days, Catalogue is a high-flying New York studio previously handling the design direction of not one, but two revered…
Dutch illustrator, silk screener, and designer Eline Van Dam (Zeloot to her clients and fans) stands out for her psychedelic…
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…
Like a magician who’s keen to keep the tricks of their trade a secret, German illustrator and designer Nadine Kolodziey feels vulnerable…
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:…
“I don’t really subscribe to the notion of the designer as a problem solver; sure, finding the solution to a…
There’s a lot to like about Lovers, the London-based creative agency that only takes on clients it’s head over heels…
Peel back the turquoise-and-yellow cover of Banana issue 3 and you’ll find an energetic assortment of “all things AZN,” as its…
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…
A mash-up of eclectic artists, the five-year anniversary poster for Boiler Room tells you everything you need to know about…
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…