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What if your next competitive advantage wasn’t a new product, but a new kind of leader? Doug Powell believes designers and design thinkers have the skills business needs most right now: the ability to connect human needs with strategic goals, to navigate uncertainty, and to see opportunities others miss. In a world of rapid technological […]

When I began shaping the Being HumanKind framework and writing the book that grew from it, I didn’t start with theories. I started with people. Rooms full of them. Designers, executives, founders, and frontline staff. Creative teams. Leadership teams. People who do their best in a world that keeps asking for more. I listened. I

Santa Claus so personifies Christmas that it would be inconceivable not to think of him as such. In fact, he stands with Uncle Sam as one of American capitalism’s great icons. But it didn’t happen until 1862, when the American political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who conceived of the Democrat donkey and Republican elephant, rendered the

As we honor the best in art and design this past year through the 2026 PRINT Awards, we’re also reflecting on PRINT Awards of yore and our many wonderful winners over the years. Today we’re highlighting Guerilla Suit, the Austin-based branding agency that took home first and second place in the Branding Campaign category of

The development of Bilzig began a quarter-century ago in Brittany. Designer Jeanne Saliou was born in Brest in 2000, received her art education at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and refined her philosophy about language and identity at Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT, or National Workshop for Typographic Research) in Nancy. At ANRT, she began

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. Brian Ponto is associate creative director at Conran Design Group’s New York studio. Conran Design Group

A place is not simply a location on a map. There’s dynamism at the heart of creative communities that hone their craft in a particular location. This friction between designer and place can be a challenge to use your voice and an invitation to help create a new visual language. This shared visual code doesn’t

Sustainable packaging is no longer a niche consideration, it’s a critical responsibility for the print and packaging industries. As brands, designers, and printers face growing pressure to reduce environmental impact, packaging has become one of the most powerful places to drive meaningful change. From material selection and production methods to lifecycle thinking and end-of-use outcomes,

100 Days is an annual project at New York City’s School of Visual Arts that was founded by Michael Bierut. Each year, the students of the school’s Masters in Branding Program spend 100 days documenting their process with a chosen creative endeavor. This year, we’re showcasing each student in the program by providing a peek into ten

Donald Trump has spent years attacking Vanity Fair magazine. He has dismissed it as elitist, irrelevant, and emblematic of a cultural class he claims to despise. In December 2016, just weeks before taking office, he publicly lashed out at the magazine after it published a scathing restaurant review, accusing it—once again—of being part of a