Art

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. Nathan Gainford is chief client officer at HB, a specialist B2B brand and marketing agency working […]

Sabri Akın founded Oniki, his Istanbul-based multimedia design firm, after COVID. One of his most important clients is Soyak, which has created a legacy in construction and industrial ventures, delivering projects across residential, commercial and industrial sectors. Over the years, the group has expanded its operations and has begun investing in renewable energy, exploring geothermal,

Multi-disciplinary artist and designer Yinka Ilori is always on to his next adventure. And this time, he’s doing so on a bike. Ilori is the type of artist who’s continuously pushing himself in new directions, with his latest foray leading him into a collaboration with the Milanese cycling brand Cinelli. Entitled ‘Dream Together, You Can

Benito Mussolini, the founder and leader of the NFP—the national Italian right-wing fascist movement—was born and is entombed in his hometown, Dovia di Predappio. The locale continues to draw thousands of tourists annually, some of whom are neo-fascists celebrating the Duce’s reign from 1922–1943 (when Mussolini was stripped of his dictatorial powers). Before Mussolini was

Whenever I ask someone where they keep their ideas, they generally point to the same place — their head. Yep, index finger to forehead, “It’s all right here,” they tell me. Your brain is a funny place. On the one hand, it’s a factory, churning out idea after idea. On the other hand, your brain

Walter Heinz Allner (1909–2006) was a German-born Bauhaus-trained designer, painter, printmaker and, most memorably, the art director of Fortune magazine from 1962–1974. In addition to evolving the magazine’s Modernist typography, he created 79 striking minimalist covers, which ran the gamut from representational simplicity to graphic abstraction. Many of his emblematic, geometrically precise covers suggested an

On August 19, a not-very-prominent story titled “Africa Is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It” appeared in The New York Times. “Africa is roughly three times as large as Europe, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the world’s most popular map, the 16th-century Mercator map,” wrote Times reporter Saikou Jammeh

In this conversation, Jordan Buckner discusses the launch of the Food Bevy Insider Box, a curated quarterly subscription service designed to help CPG industry professionals discover and sample emerging brands’ products. Buckner explains how the products are selected, the importance of community feedback in the selection process, and the customizability of the boxes, including vegan

Marlene Weisman‘s current graphic design practice largely specializes in silent film–related projects. The former SNL designer says it’s nice to have clients who are film historians and preservationists, cinema professors, and film archivists. “Better still,” she says, “They’re all very enthusiastic about the contemporary look I give to their assignments. I avoid anything that smacks

This industry op-ed is by Johanna Augustin, CEO of Stockholm agency Pond Design. Once a sea of sameness, the beer aisle used to be the epitome of bland – hyper-masculine, mass-market, and visually interchangeable. Then came the craft beer revolution. Brands like Brooklyn Brewery broke through with bold packaging, irreverent branding, and a clear personality.