Obituaries
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Alexandra Lange|Essays
“Year of the Woman” Revisited: Alexandra Lange on Criticism, Mentorship, and Memory
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.
