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As platforms become infrastructure, rebranding them becomes less about reinvention and more about responsibility. YouTube’s new identity arrives at a moment when platforms must decide whether they shape culture or simply chase it. This year, YouTube turns 20, and the company has unveiled a new global marketing identity — developed in-house by YouTube Creative Studio […]

Bubbling up from A—Z Presents, the Berlin-based space for experimental graphic design, comes On the Edges of Graphic Design From A—Z by Anja Lutz. The book brings together six years of ideas, projects and questions derived from a desire to create a place where the graphic design community can define the boundaries of the field

I had a coaching conversation recently with a former CEO. He told me he’d come to a simple realization: just because you once ran a company doesn’t mean you should run another one. Sure, seems obvious in a Substack post. But this insight was hard-won. My client, we’ll call him S, had a big-time CEO

This is the story of a novel that is graphic but is not a graphic novel. Physically, The Absence is a brick of a book that has yet to be published as a book. It is the latest “viz-lit” created and produced by Rian Hughes, a U.K. graphic designer, illustrator, writer, typographer and sometime comic

American patriotism demands more than displaying a flag lapel pin. To be patriotic is acceptance of the fundamental moral, ethical and legal principles without which the United States would cease to exist. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of this nation, Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism at the Beinecke

If you think about it, branding identities are kind of like the Super Bowl of design. Just like the Super Bowl’s own visual identity gets tweaked every year to reflect the host city’s culture, colors, and vibe (from Mardi Gras-inspired flourishes to skyline silhouettes in the logo!), identity systems have to work hard and look

First Ladies expect to get their close-ups. That, we’re told, is part of the job … that, and showing up sober. I recall Mimi Eisenhower, Jackie Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon on up through Michelle Obama and Jill Biden on TV interviews putting their best faces forward. And why not? We like our First

What would design look like if kids were calling the shots? What sort of magic could be created if a child’s imagination was in charge? Designer Taekhan Yun found this out firsthand through his inspired project “Chairs for Kids,” which he conducted at his parents’ English school in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Taekhan taught 70 of

The Polish émigré Arthur Szyk (pronounced schick, like the razor) (1894–1951), began his career in 1914; he illustrated over 30 books, created scores of caricatures and portraits as covers for Colliers and Time magazines, numerous cartoons for PM (the 1940s ad-free liberal/left daily), the New York Post, and Esquire, as well as posters, medallions, stain

When done well, design becomes inseparable from the message itself— and that’s what makes these reports so rewarding to create. Erin Grandmaison, Senior Graphic Designer at Bruce Power With the 2026 PRINT Awards in full swing, we’re continuing to check in on former PRINT Award winners to shed light on the work they’ve been a