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Committee on Un-American Activities, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, “100 Things You Should Know About Communism in the USA”, 1949. Courtesy of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee. Image Courtesy of Boston Public Library via Internet Archive The Red Scare lasted throughout the Cold War. It turned postwar Americans into a suspicious […]

In the glassy SF Jazz Center in San Francisco, I found myself sitting among designers, founders, developers, and dreamers, most clutching their morning coffee, all buzzing with excitement. We were gathered for the Upscale Conf by Freepik, a global conference series that brings together top creatives, technologists, and innovators to explore how AI is reshaping

Didactica is a new typeface designed by Sabrina Lopez, a Buenos Aires-based designer and founder of Typesenses. The typeface, developed in collaboration with The Type Founders, highlights Lopez’s background in calligraphy and UX/UI and her eye for highly detailed scripts— it is steeped in historical reference, with an appreciation and application of hand-lettering, and optimized

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. Min Lew is an award-winning executive creative director and managing partner of BaseNYC. She builds brands

Photo: Texas Public Radio, via the internet The mother of all handmade protest signs— “War is not healthy for children and other living things,” by the printmaker Lorriane Schneider (1925–1972)—was not intended as a poster, but rather a card. It was subsequently blown up and became larger in many ways. As the apolitical expression adopted

On these precious fragments, I have planted a stony garden. from Derek Jarman’s Pharmacopoeia I did not expect to walk from the borrowed London flat of a friend between Westminster and Pimlico, and find myself in tears with my face buried in a rose cascading over the wrought iron fence separating a local churchyard from

When I traveled to Buenos Aires last November for a soccer tournament with my LA team, I knew I had to check out the local sign painters. I’m incapable of going anywhere without researching the sign painting scene. While most plan ahead for a trip by looking up restaurants, museums, and other tourist attractions, I

Thank you for joining us for the weekly conversation between photographer Craig Cutler and illustrator Craig Frazier. Their collaboration is a testament to the unexpected alchemy of creative play. The Two Craigs project consisted of one weekly prompt consisted of one weekly prompt interpreted through craft. Peruse the full series. Go backstage on the Two

At the NYCxDESIGN Festival in May—which kicked off with the theme “Design is for Everyone”—the activist design firm Thought Matter hosted an evening interrogating that very theme with a simple but obvious question: “Is it?” When books are banned and language itself becomes politicized, design may be accessible … but not everyone is allowed to

Damn! I missed it! On May 6, New York University Professor Sukhdev Sandhu organized a listening event featuring “Static in the Attic”, a loony, urbane radio broadcast of self-indulgent wisdom by two sides (the divided halves) of artist/cartoonist/illustrator/musician/composer/monologist/parachutist/parapsychologist/variantologist, UK based Peter Blegvad, my favorite ex-pat polymath. In an empty recording studio on Mercer Street, New