The Shape of Design After being successful funded on Kickstarter last year, Frank Chimero releases his book on the whys of design. How to design a logo Chermayeff & Geismar’s Sagi Haviv explains ...
The creative community loses a multi-talented inspiration. Designer, author, and filmmaker Hillman Curtis sadly passed away on April 18th after a three year battle with cancer. At only 51, Curtis lea...
Wind Map Data artists Hint.fm visualize the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the United States, showing the invisible, ancient source of energy that surrounds us. Typographic matchmaking For her...
Feltron 2010/2011 Biennial Report Nicholas Felton releases the latest installment in his annual reports, full of beautiful data visualizations. 2012 campaign logos Heller, Millman, and Twemlow weigh ...
Are unpaid internships evil, or is education payment enough? Thomas Wilder reflects on his past experience as an unpaid intern at a New York design firm. Editor’s note: idsgn spans different points o...
Blue marble 2012 NASA releases an incredibly high-resolution image of the Earth, taken by the recently launched Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. Nicknamed “Blue Marble,” the image was stitched t...
Wrapping up our Fresh & Hungry series, Chris Rubino speaks with London-based Sean Freeman. CHRIS RUBINO: I think your work is probably the most developed of the winners this year, it’s quite impr...
Chris Rubino speaks with Brooklyn-based photographer Elizabeth Weinberg, our next Fresh & Hungry subject. CHRIS RUBINO: Recently Im finding it difficult to select photography I really respond to....
In this Fresh & Hungry, Chris Rubino talks with Dana Tanamachi, a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer living in Brooklyn. CHRIS RUBINO: Your work is so striking, I love that you’ve chosen ...
Continuing our Fresh & Hungry series, Chris Rubino chats with Brooklyn design trio GrandArmy—Larry Pipitone, Joey Ellis, and Eric Collins. CHRIS RUBINO: Im very interested in the group dynamic Gr...
The world of design is expanding so quickly. I truly believe in the past 10 years it has grown in size and talent like never in the past. The ADC Young Guns continue to be on the forefront of this ev...
With 2012 upon us, we look back over our most memorable articles of last year. Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 We wrote about Steve Jobs’ impact on design and his collaboration with design legend Paul Rand on ...
2011 in typefaces Get your credit card ready, the annual best-of font lists are here from FontShop and MyFonts. Veer veers Known for their tightly-curated font library, Veer restructures to increase ...
It’s that time of the year again, and we’re back with twelve must-have design gifts for the holidays. 12 inspiring moments You’re bound to find at least a dozen inspiring moments in this documentary ...
Georgia and Verdana are back (and grown up) We first shared the news over 2 years ago, and the wait is finally over. Typeface designer Matthew Carter talks to Co. Design about the redesign. The very ...
Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 On October 5, 2011 visionary Apple CEO Steve Jobs lost his eight-year battle with cancer, his last words: ”Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” Among the many tributes, 19-year old design...
Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits is the latest book from Debbie Millman. In this ‘Design discussions,’ we speak with the author about the book, her time as president of the AIGA, and her thoug...
Another day, another dropshadow The Design Bureau of Amerika captures “a day in the life of graphic designer” in poster form. Sound familiar? Bordo Bello Designers from Debbie Millman to Friends of T...
Steve Jobs’ recent departure from Apple was met with sadness and nostalgia within the design community. And rightly so. Jobs had a unique appreciation for the value of design and allowed designers to...
A decade later‚ COLLINS asks: how should we commemorate 9/11? From commemorative pins to stars-and-stripes-clad paraphernalia, there have been many attempts to commemorate the events of September 11‚...
PBS on Typography In episode 2 of the new web series Off Book, PBS talks to Hoefler & Frere-Jones, Pentagram, and Hyperakt on type and infographic design. Fauxgo Tymn Armstrong collects fictional...
There’s more to Jim Henson than Kermit the Frog. Recently I had the opportunity to see Jim Henson’s Fantastic World, a new exhibit at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. Not surprising, the exhibi...
Tattoos for designers Designer and blogger swissmiss launches Tattly, temporary tattoos for designers with commitment issues. The Happy Film Stefan Sagmeister explores the state of happiness in an up...
There has been an explosion of interest in infographics. Lowly excel-charts have been overshadowed by the unexpected visualizations being circulated lately. Though information design has a rich histo...
Power in color Color-loving Brooklyn designer Jessi Arrington gives a short TED talk on the power of color and the benefits of wearing nothing new. Designer as hoarder Recovering hoarder Steven Helle...
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We’ve all seen it. It’s on posters, T-shirts, pillows, notebooks, buttons and iPhone cases. There are multiple Tumblr blogs dedicated to its multitude of variants: “Keep Calm and Use the Force,” “Kee...
Introducing Newswordy, a new site from the team behind idsgn. Buzzwords are frequently used in news media. These are words that do not typically occur in everyday speech, but are common among newscas...
The death of Osama Bin Laden It made headlines on May 2, 2011, and for the fourth time in history, TIME prints their red X cover (first used in 1945 after the death of Adolf Hitler). National Design ...
In the most unlikeliest location lies a typographer’s oasis. Far from the intellectual boomtowns, surrounded by desert, in a dusty industrial lot, hides an oasis of ascenders, ampersands, and slab se...
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