History

Michael Bierut|Essays

Art Directors Club: 2010 Hall of Fame

The Art Directors Club announces its Hall of Fame laureates for 2010, including our very own William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Design Writing from Down Under

A new issue of The National Grid arrives in the mail. You’ve never seen it? You are missing a treat.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

This is A Thrill...

Design Research reviewed in the New York Times.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Yummy!

I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition Appetite, curated by Alexander Tochilovsky at the Herb Lubalin Center at Cooper Union, not least because it was bite-sized.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Still-Expanding Airport

In 1958, after some failed attempts by the Saarinen office to make a stop-motion film of their model for Dulles Airport, Eero Saarinen called upon his old friend Charles Eames to help him out.

Joshua Glenn|Collections

The "X" Factor

A slideshow features fifteen of Joshua Glenn's favorite Cold War-era "X" paperbacks.

Steven Heller|Essays

Heller on Heller

Vignelli Celebration: Steven Heller talks about the redemptive qualities of having the same name as Vignelli's Hellerware.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

The Kindness of Strangers

Vignelli Celebration: If charity begins at home, how can we proclaim new and progressive agendas of social change without examining ourselves, our students, our profession?

Jessica Helfand|Essays

The Kindness of Strangers

Vignelli Celebration: If charity begins at home, how can we proclaim new and progressive agendas of social change without examining ourselves, our students, our profession?

Michael Bierut|Slideshows

Dot Zero

A look inside little-known design publication Dot Zero, the house organ of pioneering design consultancy Unimark, featuring a slide show and an interview with its designer, Massimo Vignelli.

Steven Heller|Essays

Vignelli’s Herald (or Heralding Vignelli)

Vignelli Celebration: Steven Heller remembers the Herald.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Mr. Vignelli’s Map

Vignelli Celebration: Massimo Vignelli's 1972 New York City subway map is a beautiful example of information design that was ultimately rejected by its users.