Graphic Design

Sarah Gephart|Essays

A new alphabet for a shared lived experience

The design of these images comes from past work, which was a proposal for a new glyph that functions as a gender-neutral pronoun. The project was written about on AIGA’s Eye on Design site.  While working on that idea, I drew multiple possible forms for this new symbol. My goal was that it should feel … Continued

Arts + Culture

Susan Morris|Cinema

‘The conscience of this country’: How filmmakers are documenting resistance in the age of censorship

Debuting amid a global swell of authoritarianism, this year’s festival standouts are stark, instructive primers on refusing to be silenced.

Design Juice

Rachel Paese|Interviews

A quieter place: Sound designer Eddie Gandelman on composing a future that allows us to hear ourselves think

As our everyday, man-made products compete to be the most earsplitting, this sonic experience designer is trading in the “needle pricks” for spatial reverb, wood tapping, and bird song.