Media

Michael Bierut|Audio

S4E9: Karin Fong

Karin Fong is a founding member of Imaginary Forces, a creative company specializing in visual storytelling and brand strategy.

Jessica Barness|Essays

Dancin’ to a New Tune: The Subversive, Entrepreneurial Flexi Disc

The story of the flexi disc vinyl record is an intertwining of manufacturing, form, content, and publication.

Kathryn Lofton|Books

Forms of Obsession

How do we define the line between attention and obsession?

Julie Anixter|Interviews

Just Keep Walking: An Interview with Paula Scher

Called “the most influential woman graphic designer on the planet” by fellow designer extraordinaire Ellen Lupton, Pentagram partner Paula Scher has left an undeniable imprint on the American design psyche.

Louise Harpman|Books

Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture

The origin of the coffee lid is a distinctly American story and can be traced to the late 1970s, when coffee-loving car drivers, bus riders, train travelers, and walkers forever changed the hot-beverage-drinking landscape in this …

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 …

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 …

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, …