Art

It’s been 35 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act became federal law, improving the accessibility of our public spaces, from travel to employment to how we build our cities. The legislation also brought greater awareness to the daily challenges of living with a disability, helping raise our social awareness and consciousness. But our collective […]

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. Jac Mansour is Pinnacle Advertising’s chief creative officer. For the past dozen years, Mansour has led

Photomontage has long been an effective propaganda weapon for right, left and center. The Communists used it. The Fascists used it. Virtually every party and regime, despot or democrat in the 20th century has used it to manufacture messages and memes that documentary facts could never achieve. And with Photoshop, the art and craft of

By senior year in Otis College’s Product Design program, the training wheels are off. The back-to-back Design Studio V and VI mark the moment when students stop following assignments—and start setting their own. In Design Studio V, every student becomes their own creative director. They write the brief, define the problem, and choose a focus

I came to Provincetown for the first time in the summer of 1988, during a tectonic shift. I had left someone I secretly loved at home in Manhattan and joined my father, step-mother, and her adult children for a week in Orleans, at the crook of the elbow that is Cape Cod. Skaket Beach was

Building on a solid historical foundation, the Art Directors Club’s new president, Brian Collins, announced his plans for a renewal of the 105-year-old organization. In his opening statement of the ADC Annual Awards, he said: “… It is no small thing to gather for the 105th time. In a world that often discards the past

President Harry S. Truman launched the nuclear age by greenlighting the Atomic blasts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this week. The world has been plagued by threats of nuclear winter ever since—and it’s been a tough job keeping the genie in the bottle. Memory is our best deterrent, and this week we honor

There’s no denying it: we are squarely in the the Golden Age of branding in professional women’s sports. With the women’s sports industry booming louder and louder with each passing day, it stands to reason that the quality of the branding of franchises, teams, and leagues would also be on the rise, along with the

Pablo Delcan, who is among the current wave of high-performance conceptual editorial illustrators, awoke one day to a disquieting question: What is the difference between what he does and AI image generators? “For more than a decade,” he writes in the foreword to his new book, Prompt-Brush 1.0: The First Non-AI Generative Art Model, “my

Connecting Dots is a monthly column by writer Amy Cowen, inspired by her popular Substack, Illustrated Life. Each month, she’ll introduce a new creative postcard prompt. So grab your supplies and update your mailing list! Play along and tag @print_mag and #postcardprompts on Instagram. Nothing is set in stone. A bird can be refolded into