History

Justin Zhuang|Essays

East and West: Graphic Design in Singapore Today

British advertising agencies brought modern graphic design into Singapore after WWII. Now there's a thriving community of independent studios.

John Bertram|Essays

These Events Did Not Occur in Black and White

The history of cover design for This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.

John Foster|Essays

Whirlwinds, Snowdrops, and Big Bangs: Vintage Fireworks Labels

Happy 4th of July!

Jennifer Kabat|Interviews

Exhibition as Inquiry: An Interview with Kieran Long

Guns, shoes and cheap jeans: Kieran Long has added all of these to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s permanent collection.

Laura Tarrish|Essays

Hunter | Gatherer: Text as Textile

Evidence of fabric embellished with needle and thread has been found as far back as the Cro-Magnon days (30,000 B.C.). The artists featured here, writing with stitchery, challenge our expectations of what is commonly considered a domestic …

Jason Grant|Essays

Black, Red + Gold

A conversation about colonization and visual resistance in Australia.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Typewriter

Typewriters are making a comeback and, as a wide-ranging new survey book shows, so is typewriter art.

Adam Harrison Levy|Interviews

The Falling Man: An Interview with Henry Singer

The Falling Man is a 90-minute documentary that tells the story of a controversial image. Who took it? Why was it censored? And who was the man in the photograph?

Observed|Miscellaneous

Celebrate Design

In case you haven't heard, AIGA celebrates its Centennial this year.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

The Focused Obsession of Photographer Rob Amberg

Rob Amberg is an award winning a documentary photographer who lives with his wife live on a small farm in the same NC county where he makes his photographs.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Lucia Eames, 1930-2014

An appreciation of Lucia Eames (1930-2014).

Brigette Brown|Insights Per Minute

Brigette Brown on Umbrellas

Brigette Brown is a 2013 graduate of SVA MFA Design Criticism program who has worked for the Museum of Latin American Art, written for Disegno and Surface, researched for Metropolis, and edited a publication for Domus.