Media

Brian LaRossa|Opinions

Empathy in Book Publishing

On The intersection of customer empathy and book publishing.

House Industries|Books

Finding a Kindred Spirit

“I’m not sure if we needed a new logo and thought of House, or if we needed a new logo because of House.” —Jimmy Kimmel

Steven Heller|Essays

Something to Read This Summer, Or Now!

If you are going to read one thing this summer (or now), I suggest an essay in Ben Shahn’s The Shape of Content titled “Biography of a Painting.”

Sean Adams|Evidence

John Astrop and Eric Hill, Booze, 1967

Historic design work, linked to the cultural standards of its time, is often unacceptable now. Does that make it bad? Should the creator be vilified? Should the offending design work be eliminated from a classroom or book?

Steven Heller|Books

Cosmos of Signs

The universe of signs and symbols devised throughout the ages of human history is head-spinningly immense and forever expanding.

Katie Evans|Events

With a Shift Simultaneous Realities Collide

Using writing as a tool to listen to others and ourselves.

Manuel Lima|Books

Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge

The circularity exhibited in nature turned out to be much more than a source of wonder. It soon became a chief guiding principle of human culture, emulated and reinvented in art, religion, language, technology, architecture, philosophy, …

Sean Adams|Books

Subjective + Emotional

Color is subjective and emotional.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S2E8: Teddy Blanks

Teddy Blanks is a co-founder of CHIPS, a Brooklyn-based design studio, who specializes in film titles.

Ken Gordon|Essays

Chasing the Unicorn: Why Writing Is Work

If writing is design’s "unicorn skill", how do you get started? Read.

Milton Glaser|Books

Call for Submissions: The Design of Dissent

Artists usually are the alarm system for society.

Brian LaRossa|Essays

Undercover Branding

The Stories Behind 20 Publishing House Logos