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Should You Work With Your Romantic Partner? 4 Working Pairs Share Their...
Today is Valentine’s Day, a day of love, capitalism, sickeningly sweet Instagram posts, pithy denunciations of the holiday, and—god willing—a ton of chocolate. We hate to be the buzzkills here, but...
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The Swiss Designers Turning to DaFont to Subvert the Grid
Neo Neo’s approach—like its name and team-size–is a two-pronged entity: the traditional, measured Swiss grid is ever present, but poked and prodded to give everything a bold, modern twist. The...
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How to Fight the Power with Joy, a Lesson From Corita Kent
With Brexit looming and all kinds of global strife taking center stage, there’s perhaps no better time for the first London exhibition of the work of Corita Kent. The activist nun’s career as an...
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How to Be a “Designer in Your Mind and an Artist in Your Heart”
Munich-based studio Milch + Honig has an interesting story behind its name (which translates as milk and honey, for non-German speakers). Projects are either “Milch” or “Honig:” the former are those...
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David Benski on the Mood of Magazines and the Virtues of Change
Founded in 1995, Lodown magazine—the Berlin-based skateboard-culture-cum-contemporary-arts magazine—has long switched up its editorial design with each issue, bringing on guest designers and...
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How Innovative Print Publishing Takes Creativity from Local to Global
When graphic designer Indrek Sirkel first conceived Lugemik, he planned to translate and publish important texts about design and art into Estonian. A decade on, his publishing initiative has become...
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The Haribo Cult, Advertising as Religion + Why Design Is About Much More Than...
Suzy Chan’s work is often incredibly, undeniably cute. At first glance it’s a joyful explosion of color, vibrancy, smart use of type, and an intriguing marriage of Western advertising tropes;...
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Today’s Design Grads Are More Woke Than Ever—and It’s Looking Great
Things are looking great, and not so great when I speak to Irish designer Kayley Kemple. She’s just graduated with her BA at TU, Dublin School of Creative Arts and scooped the Best Visual Communication...
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Graphic Design With Added Value from Berlin’s Studio Pandan
Studio Pandan are the guest designers of the fifth issue of Eye on Design magazine. Pick up a copy of Eye on Design #05, the “Distraction” issue, for a deeper dive into how the influx of notifications,...
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Prem Krishnamurthy on Design as a “Generous Discipline”
When I arrived to Berlin at the start of this year, Prem Krishnamurthy’s collaborative residency had just come to a close, but I still heard about it everywhere. A procession of designers had made...
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Type Design Is “Cool” Again—and Former Pentagram Designer Margot Lévêque Is...
In a creative landscape awash with maximalism, “acid graphics,” and “ugly design”—all of which I personally love—sometimes you need something a little more classic, timeless, and understated to balance...
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Na Kim on Design as “Found Fiction” Amidst Defined Systems
I like that when I interview designer Na Kim, we’re in a boxy apartment on the fifth floor of a Bruno Taut building in Berlin. I like it because in some ways, this style of architecture—with its...
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Emily Oberman and Paul Sahre on Designing With Wit, Coming Up in the ’90s +...
Emily Oberman is a partner at Pentagram New York, where she and her team have designed some of the most recognizable identities for TV and film—Saturday Night Live, Ready Player One, DC...
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Homa Delvaray Gives Poster Design a New Dimension
This week we’re running online for the first time six pieces from our past issues of Eye on Design magazine. First up from the “Psych Issue,” is an interview between Shira Inbar (who also designed the...
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Designer Cat Frazier Got Millions to Come For the Memes and Stay For the...
This week we’re running online for the first time six pieces from our past issues of Eye on Design magazine. This story was originally published in the “Psych” issue. It’s no longer just a sneaking...
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The Cartoonist Seth Has Built a Real Life Entirely Around His Fictional Work
This week we’re running online for the first time six pieces from our six issues of Eye on Design magazine. This story was originally published in the “Utopias” issue. Upon this spot, the morning...
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South African Art Director Rendani Nemakhavhani Is Self-Styling the World She...
This piece was originally published in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. In the first months of 2019, a curious series of posters began popping up on social media and in the streets of...
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The Publishing Collective One of My Kind Uses Zines as a Medium for Community...
This story was originally published in 2018 in the “Utopias” issue of Eye on Design magazine. Surrounded by biryani restaurants and betting shops in the North East London borough of Newham sits a...
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Takenobu Igarashi Pushed the Parameters of Typography with His Hand-drawn 3D...
Japanese-born educator and designer Takenobu Igarashi’s 20-year creative career brought an architectural understanding of form and space to the world of typography, paving the way for a new field of...
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Designer Rush Jackson on Making Work that Expands and Shapes the Black...
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging, design’s value lies in its usefulness. “Graphic design by itself is empty,” says Jackson. “It is a vessel...
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