The greatest artistic fame might be the kind where few people know your name but everyone knows your work, because it feels as inevitable to the everyday culture as fire or the wheel. The fact that one person had to invent it from nothing gets forgotten, or overlooked, as the...
In animated movies, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pieces of illustrative and typographic design are generated to create a believable and rich world. The graphic designers’ main role is to support and advance the storytelling while adding beauty, humor, texture, and a sense of time and place. Collectively, designers Laura Meyer,...
In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams. In abandoned buildings packed with people, a group of DJs developed techniques like sampling, breakbeats, scratching, cutting, and backspinning. But news of a jam didn’t spread by word of mouth...
Inspired by a child’s handwriting, the cursive logo has been masterminded by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele and has received a mixed reaction from fans. Gucci has revealed a new logo inspired by children’s handwriting. Led by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, the new temporary logo was first revealed earlier...
Early in his episode of the Netflix series about design, Jonathan Hoefler describes the act of type design as a sleight of hand. It’s the job of typographers like himself, he explains, to pay attention to the details that no else notices or knows to care about. There are all...
ON-TYPE: Texts on Typography, on view at the Bauhaus Archive from May 8 to August 5, 2013, is an interactive exhibition conveying milestones from the history of typography over more than 100 years. The exhibition will offer a multisensory experience of the way in which one font is never equivalent to another....
The 2013 Social Good Design Awards is calling for submissions of graphic design projects with the power to incite meaningful change in the way we live our lives. Last year, the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) received over 200 submissions from around the world. This year’s So Good design concept came...
To observe its 50th anniversary of publishing, GDUSA is presenting selected results all year of a massive poll about who you respect and what you admire. Last time around, the magazine listed it’s “readers choice” of the most influential graphic designers and firms of the past 50 years. This time around, GDUSA looks at...
The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design is a book in a box. It is a collection of 500 loose-leaf cards that represent the most influential and innovative graphic designs from around the world throughout history. There are 15 categories, among them: typeface, logos, ads, magazine covers, money, film graphics, book covers,...
Organized by Communication Arts, Typography Competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering. The competition is open to any typographic project first printed or produced from September 2011 through September 2012. Chosen by a jury of...