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Karl Strovink, CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee, discusses the brand’s evolution, its commitment to quality and sustainability, and the innovative approaches being taken to redefine coffee experiences. He highlights the importance of community, the role of creativity in coffee culture, and the challenges posed by climate change. Strovink also shares insights on leadership and the […]

Voting should be easy, right? Registering to vote should be clear and simple, right? Participating in democracy should be encouraged, right? Alas, just because something should be the case, doesn’t make it so, and certain groups have done their best to make voting in the US complicated and inaccessible for certain groups as a means

Find an event near you on March 28. “As President Trump escalates his attempts to control us, it is on us, the people, to show that we will fight to protect one another and our country. If he believes we will roll over and allow him to take our freedoms, he is mistaken.” —nokings.org Designer

Award-winning branding agency WMH&I has unveiled a new identity for Natural Habitat, an environmental education charity focused on connecting communities through nature, sustainable land use, and biodiversity conservation. The rebrand transforms the organization from a grassroots initiative into a flexible, living brand system designed to grow alongside the landscapes and communities it supports. Founded in

When we look at the cross-section of a tree, we are looking at time made visible. Each tree ring marks a year; and records years of drought, years of rain, years when the world shifted in ways the tree could never name but nonetheless endured. Dendrochronology is the science of studying tree rings, and the

Willy Fleckhaus (1925–1983) was the art director’s art director. As a designer, the magazine twen (short for twenty) in postwar Germany was his R&D and proving ground. Published from April 1959 to May 1971, twen never sold millions of copies like leading German news periodicals Stern (Hamburg), Der Spiegel (Berlin) and Quick (Munich)—but it did

Another day, another book about sign painting added to my wishlist! This time from the typography heroes over at Letterform Archive. The San Francisco-based non-profit’s mission is to share the joy of letters, with their latest book doing just that though archiving the work of French sign painters from the 19th and 20th centuries. Lettres

Joyce Croft is creative problem-solver with a love for good design, handmade crafts, and all things nerdy. Equally passionate about being a little silly, because the best ideas often come with a sense of play. Pronouns:  she/her What is the thing you like doing most in the world?   Problem-solving and meeting people. That’s actually 2

April should be celebrated as Data Viz Month, the inauguration of a Data Viz Year that will highlight the inestimable importance of data visualization in our everyday lives. To kick this off are two momentous parallel events. The first is the introduction of the SVA MPS Data Visualization and Communications program, now accepting applications through

For decades, the PRINT Awards have held a special place in the design world—not just as a competition, but as a record of where the field has been and where it’s going. What began as PRINT’s Regional Design Annual grew into a global program that celebrates the best work across disciplines, from typography and branding