Art

Earlier this year, I received a mysterious email. A permissions specialist wanted to license my 1991 poster, “Defying Odds, Expanding Opportunities: The African American Challenge,” (below right) designed for my client, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, for use in the forthcoming 7th Edition of Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. I scanned the image, forwarded my […]

Many type foundries and type designers have focused their craft on creating type for a world with far fewer boundaries, which demands recognition of written scripts outside the Western lens. Rosetta, an award-winning type design studio, bakes this into their mission: “to create original fonts for a polyphonic world.” The studio’s newest typeface experiment takes

How can a board game teach the fundamentals of design and creativity? Gray Garmon, founding director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Integrated Design, joins hosts Doreen Lorenzo and Michael Baker to explore how creativity becomes a powerful tool for solving everyday problems, and how his collaborative approach is democratizing design education.

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. Amelia Nash is a Canadian-born, New York–based multidisciplinary creative, teacher, and writer exploring how design, strategy,

If Joe Brainard (1942–1994) were alive, he would not take credit for creating a new comics genre. During the early 1960s, he was an an up-and-coming rebel artist and writer from Tulsa, OK, in the New York School art scene. In 1964 he started collaborating with downtown poets, including John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Ted Berrigan

Few objects hold as many memories and have as much meaning as stuffed animals. From the moment we’re born, teddy bears and stuffed animals of all sorts are put in our arms, and are often our first ever friends. But when you love something as hard as children love their stuffed animals, they get dirty,

Two decades ago I donated 300 caricature and cartoon books and periodicals to the SVA Library. I had collected them for over 20 years, while I was researching artwork from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries. Included in the boxes of (many rare) secondhand volumes were anthologies of cartoonists from The New Yorker, including Otto Soglow,

Name the five photographers who, more than any others, defined the dramatic shift in the approach to magazine photography in the late eighties and early nineties. There’s Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel. Richard Avedon, of course.  Who’s missing? I’m getting to that. Today’s guest was discovered while still a student at ArtCenter College of

When a graphic designer lives to be 97 years old, he tends to accumulate a lot of published and unpublished work. In Walter Allner’s case, it’s a lot of consistently emblematic work, which his son, Peter Allner, is happy to share with others. Thanks to Peter’s generosity—as well as his desire to have his father’s

Last time, we explored why corporate legal buyers now expect consumer-grade experiences. Today, the harder question: how do you demonstrate the quality of your thinking without revealing the specific insights that clients pay for? The Fundamental Problem For decades, legal services operated on a relationship-first model: you knew someone, they vouched for a firm, and