Art

It’s never been easier to make something that looks like design. Type a few words into a prompt, and a logo, poster, or campaign visual appears in seconds. For nonprofits with small budgets and big ambitions, the allure of AI-generated design is obvious: speed, scale, and cost-effectiveness. But let’s not confuse production with design. True […]

If you’re a business leader, creative director, entrepreneur, or someone curious (or even a little anxious) about how AI fits into your work, this episode is for you. In this conversation, Justin Ahrens talks with Scott Meyer, co-founder of Chipp.ai, about designing AI tools that don’t just automate but amplify creativity, strategy, and human connection.

Another day, another legacy brand rolling out a striking refresh. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has just unveiled a new rebrand to bring the institution into the digital age, the first in over 25 years. RIBA developed the sleek and chic new brand system in collaboration with the London branding agency Johnson Banks.

When I was a teen, I did everything imaginable to get my cartoons and drawings printed in Evergreen Review, the most “radical” periodical of the 1960s, which famously published Robert Grossman, Brad Holland, Tomi Ungerer, Edward Sorel and a gaggle of witty illustrators and cartoonists of the era. By the time I was 19, I

Designers and developers don’t often speak the same language — except at SmashingConf, which turns the two disciplines into one dialogue. I wouldn’t call myself deeply connected to the web design community. My roots are in graphic design, and only in recent years have I begun expanding into the digital space. I’d heard of Smashing

Identity Politics is a column written by veteran journalist Susan Milligan, covering the big issues in the socio-political ether as they intersect with design, art, and other modes of visual communication. Sometimes a red baseball cap is just a hat. And sometimes — more often than not, of late — it’s a defiant, brazen symbol

Since we are in the midst of Nobel Prize season, I posed that very question to ChatGPT and received this response: No, there is no Nobel Prize for art, as Alfred Nobel’s will only established prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace. For further inspection I went to the official Nobel Prize

This industry perspective is by Tom Alexander, digital design director at Conran Design Group. For the 15% of the US population that are neurodivergent, neuroinclusive design can spell the difference between a product that opens doors and one that slams them shut. Because what might be a bold, impactful interface for neurotypical brains can be

When I first read the statistic that 70% of people experience butt-related skin concerns, I immediately dug around to see if it was true. And it tracks. We all have a bottom, yet it’s one of those body parts that rarely gets the care or conversation it deserves. Butt health has arrived. And for anyone

Debbie Millman’s ongoing project “What Matters,” an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers, is now in its third year. Each respondent is invited to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph. Paul Blackburn is the founder and creative director of Studio Blackburn, a London-based brand studio working