Education

Steven Heller|Interviews

Crowd Sourcing Graphic Design History

The People’s Graphic Design Archive: preserving cultural artifacts and digital history of our profession.

Steven Heller|Essays

Social Distance Learning: The Remote Generation

Distance learning is meant to convey knowledge and teach skills that will allow students and aspiring professionals to make marks that communicate messages, ideas and impressions . . . to others.

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

Why it Matters to Me if Designers Read and Write

Literacy means being an engaged and responsible citizen. It means building sympathy and empathy. It means being radically curious and pursuing meaning with a sense of purpose.

Lily Hansen|Interviews

Illustrator Ella Paton Thinks We Should Ditch Expectations and Show Our Mistakes

My new philosophy is, Sod it. Just do it. And stop saying “sorry.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Zachary Lieberman

“Tools and jobs will always change but the fundamentals stay the same.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Paul Pangaro

In my experience, an understanding of the processes of design and the means for expanding techniques and capabilities are a matter of practice and critique, tightly coupled.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

On the Edge of Me

As the recipients of this year’s AIGA Worldstudio scholarship are announced, friends and fellow scholarship jurors, designer Dian Holton and illustrator Marcos Chin, reflect on professional growth, mentorship as personal mission, …

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Dori Tunstall

“Designing is not about a job. Design is one of many pathways for doing meaningful work in the world.”

Rick Poynor|Essays

Herbert Spencer and The Book of Numbers

The Book of Numbers by Herbert and Mafalda Spencer was aimed at children, but its intriguing visual approach is more “photobook” than “schoolbook.”

Michael Bierut|Essays

What’s That Crashing Sound, Or, Eisenman in Cincinnati

I had chosen to spend five years in a place that many considered the ugliest college campus in America.

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

De-specializing Design Education

Certification represents an assurance of quality, but also implies exclusivity. What about design?

Brian LaRossa|Essays

Design as a Third Area of General Education

Graphic designers are insecure. This is understandable; design lacks defensible boundaries.