Art

Tobias Frere-Jones needs little introduction. He’s one of the world’s leading type designers and educators, having created indelible typefaces woven into our visual lexicon: Community Gothic, Whitney, Gotham, to name just a few. Ten years ago, he started his namesake foundry, and with its founding, he released its first retail typeface, Mallory. At the time, […]

Design awards are often seen as destinations — moments when the world pauses to applaud what’s been made. But for COLLINS, they’re more like mirrors, reflecting how far curiosity and conviction can take you when you decide to build what doesn’t yet exist. In the iF DESIGN AWARD 2025, independent strategy and design agency COLLINS

In this episode, we meet Skye Hilton, founder and owner of New Obsession, and Troy Whittington, Creative Recovery Facilitator. Pioneers in using creativity as a pathway to recovery from substance use disorder, both are artists in recovery who discovered that creativity could serve as both a map and a compass for navigating the uncharted territories

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. Kevin Steele is currently a creative director at Someplace in Los Angeles. Before joining Someplace, he

Describing contemporary politicos as “fascist” comes from a postwar tradition of branding anyone presenting as authoritarian with the term. It implies a totalitarian disregard for the rule of law, transmuting a republic into a dictatorship. The term has become a catchall for many on the fringes of the political spectrum, right and left, and as

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I didn’t choose lace— lace chose me. NeSpoon A cheeky intro is unnecessary when profiling mixed-media artist NeSpoon because her work truly speaks for itself. Lace is the basis of the Polish artist’s multi-decade and multi-disciplinary practice, in which she creates impressive, large-scale murals that pop off the walls with a sense of dimension and

David Becker is a sniper. He paints pictures and snipes posters on the streets. His latest project is American Headbag, a series of meditations on the American flag, originally created as an installation of a dozen 60″ x 48″ works on paper, each slightly different and unique, all becoming darker and ending as an image

Today’s guest has become almost synonymous with graphic design and magazine publishing. His career began in the defiant New York “sex press” of the late 1960s, where, astonishingly, as a teenager, he was already art-directing magazines like Screw and The New York Review of Sex. That unlikely starting point gave him a rare education in

I have designed myself (my life, that is) into a corner. I think about what to write for this daily column every night before I hit the pillow … but rather than fall asleep, I keep thinking, thinking and thinking. Although I do recommend keeping one’s mind active—thinking, thinking and thinking—I don’t recommend it before