Graphic Design

Rick Poynor|Essays

Starowieyski’s Graphic Universe of Excess

In Franciszek Starowieyski’s posters, desire, sexuality, monstrosity, madness and death conjoin in some of the most outrageous images found in graphic design.

William Drenttel|Essays

Design of Crime, Evil and Death

Buried in our Winterhouse library are numerous books with "design" in the title — things like Death by Design, Design for Dying and Design in Evil.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Wim Crouwel: The Ghost in the Machine

Far from suppressing his own creative personality in the way he advised, Wim Crouwel was expressing it to the full.

Rick Poynor|Essays

An Unknown Master of Poster Design

Karel Teissig might just be the best poster designer you have never heard of.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Slicing Open the Surrealist Eyeball

Surrealism codified a poetic principle that has always existed as a possibility and still exists in life and art.

Andy Chen|Essays

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Cub

Is design strictly a set of rules?

Julie Lasky|Reviews

Design Indaba 2011

Review of Design Indaba 2011 conference in Cape Town, South Africa

David Antin|Essays

Bomb Hanoi: The Andy Warhol Cover

Art critic David Antin remembers working with Andy Warhol on the “Bomb Hanoi” cover of some/thing in 1966…

Steven Heller|Essays

Souvenirs as Nazi Propaganda

Part three in a three part series on the design practices of the Third Reich.

Rick Poynor|Essays

On My Shelf: Richard Neville’s Playpower

Martin Sharp’s cover design is a garden of queasily decadent delights where the joke is probably on the reader.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Neat Freaks

Organizing things neatly = what IBM, Ray Eames, Herbert Matter and Tumblr have in common.

Julie Lasky|Projects

DesigNYC, Round 2

Report on second round of pro bono design initiatives fostered by DesigNYC.