Media

The Editors|Books

Richard Bernstein: Starmaker

A gallery of pop stars from the pop art era.

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Gail Anderson

“As a designer, I am sensitive to the way people consume information, and very concerned about the survival of print.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Joan Wong on Design, Identity, and the Perfect Book Cover

“I’m not sure the experience between print and ebooks is really that different.”

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Jennifer 8. Lee

“In my line of work, sometimes you have to wait for the future to catch up.”

Lorraine Wild|Essays

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So, it’s 1966 and two guys are hanging around their Los Angeles apartment, musing about the sort of things that people mused about in the Sixties. The aesthetic philosophers in question were the artist Ed Ruscha and the artist/comedy …

Lilly Smith|Interviews

Chain Letters: Anna Gerber

“Readers and writers are open, adventurous, and eager to try new things. Even if those experiences are not always perfect.”

Milton Glaser|Books

Milton Glaser: Nine Posters

“As a professional graphic designer for sixty years, I’ve produced more than five hundred posters that in a variety of ways inform, persuade, or decorate their subjects—that all comes under the heading of good …

Edwin Carels|Books

Training Grounds

A new book out from Ludion Publishers explores at the Quay Brothers training as graphic artists and the artwork that they created.

Molly Young|Books

Puzzling Out William Steig

A new book is a coded exploration of New York City—an account of local customs and affinities, a catalog of macro and microaggressions, a narrative of life in the modern metropolis.

Julie Anixter|Books

Understanding is the Hard Part

TED founder Richard Saul Wurman’s new book, Understanding Understanding, reminds AIGA executive director Julie Anixter that while mastering any discipline is a difficult task, designers might be the ones best suited to guide the …

Steven Heller|Essays

The Times. A Comic Strip. A Pulitzer Prize.

It is not every day that a comic strip wins the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning—come to think of it, there’s never been one.

Debbie Millman|Audio

Anand Giridharadas

Debbie Millman talks to journalist Anand Giridharadas about his career, about a divided America, and about tech monopolies.