Graphic Design

The Editors|Books

Self-Reliance

To think through making, to know yourself better through the process of producing something.

Pamela Hovland|Books

Ecological by Design: A History From Scandinavia

Dr. Kjetil Fallan’s "Ecological by Design: A History From Scandinavia" is a book I will be thinking about for a long time.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Jan van Toorn: The World in a Calendar

Jan van Toorn’s provocative 1972/73 calendar for the printer Mart.Spruijt has been reprinted by a Dutch design company.

Rick Poynor|Essays

A Dictionary of Surrealism and the Graphic Image

An alphabetical guide to graphic designers influenced by Surrealism and to some key Surrealist concepts.

Steven Heller|Interviews

Guilt-Free Magazine

The internet is wonderful for certain things. The print-is-dead conversation is tedious. It’s all changing, inevitably, and magazine sales have dwindled but I don’t think that’s because the audience has disappeared, I …

Observed|Collections

50 Years of Cuban Film Posters

The Danish Film Institute has posted their collection of Cuban Film Posters from the past 50 years or more on Flickr.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Style: An Inventory

Style: An Inventory by Michael Bierut

Debbie Millman|Audio

Clement Mok

Clement Mok on the early days of Apple computer, the joys of working for Steve Jobs and starting his successful businesses.

Véronique Vienne|Essays

Image Making, Reclaimed

Etienne Hervy, art director of the International Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont, France, asked a painter, not a graphic designer, to create a pair of posters for this year’s event.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S5E10: Eddie Opara

Eddie Opara is a multidisciplinary designer and a partner at the design firm Pentagram.

Connect 4|Audio

Man-Wai Cheung and Angel Blanco: “Mom, Dad, I Want to Be a Designer”

Man-Wai Cheung, founder and creative director of Adolescent and design student Angel Blanco, talk about choosing a creative career as first generation immigrants—and how they each explained that choice to their parents.

Connect 4|Audio

Forest Young and Sakinah Bell: Follow Your Curiosity, Find Your Inspiration

Finding joy, purpose, and personal evolution through creation.