Media

Sean Adams|Evidence

Bad Color

Advice on creating color palettes from the author of The Designer’s Dictionary of Color.

Steven Heller|Books

Vignelli’s Subway Map For Little Ones

Massimo Vignelli’s subway map, and the graphic design process, immortalized in new form: a children’s book.

Bonnie Siegler|Books

Dear Client

“Ironically, there are many books for designers about how we can better work with clients...But, as far as I know, there are no books to help clients better work with creative people, who are a unique species with a unique language and not-so-unique insecurities.”

Steven Heller|Essays

Fear Of Phallus

In my case, on average of twice a week, editors accused me of allowing one or more illustrators to include an unacceptable banana, kidney, or lozenge shape — and I’m talking about a plain old curvilinear-tipped graphic device that happened to be touching some other shape.

Debbie Millman|Audio

David Cay Johnston

On this episode, Debbie talks to David Cay Johnston about the fun of investigative journalism.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Critical Olympics

What the best sports commentary does is just like criticism: it makes you care about the previously abstract.

Bonnie Siegler|Books

Signs of Resistance

This book is a collection of visual expressions of resistance throughout American history. They include broadsides, postcards, posters, greeting cards, sculptures, paintings, ads, book covers, magazine covers, handmade-signs, projections, and the back sides of scrap paper.

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.”

Steven Heller|Opinions

Spielberg’s Post Is Flawed

Spoiler Alert: Steven Heller digs into the production of Steven Spielberg’s “The Post”.

Lilly Smith|Books

Stefan Bucher’s Letterheads: A Zany but Totally Methodical Take on Reinvention

The designer explains why humor is a good tool, how to overcome artistic fears, and what he means by saying he’s a “Victorian gardener of the mind.”

Steven Heller|Books

Holiday Book List: For the Inspiration-seeker and the Composed Creative

As 2017 draws to a close, Heller and Millman ask, which feeling do you want to end the year on: one that stimulates, or soothes?

Julie Anixter|Books

Holiday Book List: For the Design Standard-Bearer or the Trendsetter

Are you looking for design moments that shook the world or that are off the beaten path?