Art

On July 11, Tokyo’s Kura Gallery opened an expansive exhibition, Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975, on view until July 26. Its curator, designer, educator, and historian Ian Lynam, created the exhibition as “an archive-on-display” of many of the objects and artifacts featured in the recently published hybrid coffee table book/textbook of the same name. Both […]

The ‘Golden Age’ was the Golden Age because magazines were phenomenal then—all editors were firing on all cylinders, and everybody was the competition. Graydon Carter I’m a writer and the former deputy editor of Vanity Fair. Now, if you know anything about me, which statistically you don’t, unless—shameless plug—you read my memoir, Dilettante, about my

This just in from Roger Law, the co-creator and master caricaturist of the Spitting Image satiric puppet hit U.K. television show, which originally ran from 1984–1996. He writes in a recent email, “We are doing the most filthy Spitting Image on U-Tube. It’s called ‘Spitting Image Presents: The Rest is Bullshit.’ It is aimed at

If you were in New York City on July 8th, gazing out onto the Hudson River, you might have seen a giant inflatable pigeon floating on by. While most New Yorkers are desensitized to pigeon commotion, even the most seasoned city-dwellers were likely intrigued by this five-story-high, 700-pound inflatable pigeon careening down the New York

When was the last time you saw a law firm website and thought, “Wow, that’s memorable”? If you’re drawing a blank, you’re not alone. For decades, law firms have played it safe with their visual identities—navy blues, muted burgundies, and reserved blacks dominated the landscape. The unspoken rule seemed clear: serious legal work requires serious

A Cautionary Tale “I can release a destructive power in a human being that would make the split atom seem like a blessing,” says the science teacher at an all-girl’s boarding school to her student lab assistant in the 1957 B-film Blood of Dracula. The teacher’s name is Miss Branding—yes, Branding—and her threat, we soon

Even if you aren’t a TikTok user, it’s impossible to ignore the social media juggernaut’s prominent spot in the recent news cycle. Being used as a political ping-pong, however, is not the only TikTok news on the docket; today, there’s a little tidbit for the design world. TikTok has seen meteoric growth since the launch

The newest drama from Apple TV+, Smoke, is an odyssey into the psyche of an arsonist in Southern California. The subject matter alone lends itself to a visually compelling opening title sequence, and the title pros over at Digital Kitchen delivered. They physically burned objects related to plot points and characters in the show for

It is true that you can’t judge a book by its cover. But these days, you can’t judge whether a cover is AI-generated or not, unless the credit says as much. I bought this book, The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut, because of its title and cover, which piqued my interest in morbidity. It was shelved

Uai is a new typeface by Naipe Foundry, designed specifically for our expanding digital world, from editorial UI to apps to multi-environment digital platforms. The independent Rio-based type design studio is known for character-rich and culturally significant typefaces, such as Pacaembú, a sans-serif typeface with roots in Brazilian football and the Art Deco Estadio Pacaembú.