Obituaries

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Year of the Women

A year-end wrap-up of my favorite stories. The common theme? Women and the making of design.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Martin Sharp: From Satire to Psychedelia

The late Martin Sharp was a visual innovator whose work erased artificial distinctions between applied image-making and fine art.

Chris Pullman|Essays

Remembering Alvin Eisenman

Alvin Eisenman received the AIGA Medal in October, 1991. Chris Pullman, a student in Eisenman's class of 1966 — and a member of the faculty ever since — gave these remarks at the event.

Phil Patton|Essays

Niels Diffrient: The Human Factor

Phil Patton remembers Niels Diffrient. Photographs by Dorothy Kresz.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Kicked A Building Lately?

That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.

Michael Bierut|Essays

Positively Michael Patrick Cronan

Michael Bierut remembers the late Michael Cronan.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Bill Moggridge 1943-2012

Jessica Helfand remebers Bill Moggridge.

Observed|Events

Hillman Curtis Celebration Benefit

A Hillman Curtis celebration benefit has been organized by his friends and colleagues.

Debbie Millman|Essays

Hillman Curtis, 1961-2012

“I met Hillman Curtis for the first time in February 2006 when I interviewed him for my radio show Design Matters.” Debbie Millman remembers her friend, Hillman Curtis.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Richard Hamilton, the Great Decipherer

The artist Richard Hamilton, who died this week, was an acute observer of design and the contemporary world.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Paul Stiff, the Reader’s Champion

For the late Paul Stiff, design educator, writer, editor and skeptic, typography must never neglect to serve the reader.

Gerry Shamray|Essays

Harvey and Me

A remembrance of comic artist and graphic novelist Harvey Pekar by an illustrator who worked with him throughout his career, fellow Clevelander Gerry Shamray.