by Ella Lee | May 22, 2019 | Insights
Shanti Sparrow is a New York City–based designer and illustrator from Australia whose award-winning work is vibrant, geometric, and confident. She recently shared with us a little more about what it takes to find your niche and make a name for yourself in the...
by Chris Force | Apr 30, 2019 | Work
If you’ve ever seen an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, you’ve experienced Kelli Miller’s handiwork. The motion designer helped create the memorable, encyclopedia-inspired show open for the HBO late-night critical favorite. Kelli’s also designed title...
by Stephen Gossett | Apr 23, 2019 | Work
The store and office of emerging Ukrainian design duo FILD, in the Shevchenko neighborhood of Kiev, is easy enough to spy, thanks to its distinctive color scheme: ash grey brick around a bright yellow front door. Inside, among the clean lines and open spaces: more ash...
by Stephen Gossett | Mar 21, 2019 | Work
Nikolai Senin has done graphic illustration work for some of Russia’s biggest companies, including energy titan Gazprom and Aeroflot, the country’s de facto national airline, but it’s the personal work he shares on his website and Instagram that...
by Stephen Gossett | Mar 11, 2019 | Work
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by Julia Stone | Jan 25, 2019 | Work
Piotrek Pérez works hard and plays hard. When he’s not working as a product designer at Joma-Sport, he’s multitasking as a freelance designer and marketer, or teaching classes as an associate professor of industrial design engineering and product development at...
by Stephen Gossett | Jan 8, 2019 | Insights
“Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.” Apple’s Jonathan Ive dropped that pearl of wisdom in Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs. And even though he was referring to the “ritual” of unpacking a physical product, the same sentiment applies...
by Jane Gayduk | Jan 4, 2019 | Work
Carl Gustav Magnusson’s home and studio is impeccably chic. The space he shares with his wife, architect Emanuela Frattini, on the Lower East Side of New York City has floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, not a single space left for new books, a sprawling living area (at...
by Chris Force | Dec 28, 2018 | Work
There’s an industrial area on the near west side of Chicago. It’s the kind of street where factories, scrap yards, artists, and adventurous start-ups collide. There’s a coffee shop and an old-school hot dog stand. It’s a very “Chicago” street, one of the many places...
by Chris Force | Dec 5, 2018 | Products
There’s been no shortage of exemplary books to pass over our desks recently, with works as diverse as George Saunders’ award-winning experimental lit and a graphic history of Chicago’s bizarre gang business cards. Here we spotlight five must-reads...
by Ayla Angelos | Nov 9, 2018 | Work
Since 1997, Hingston Studio, founded by renowned British graphic designer and creative director Tom Hingston, has been championing an innovative and all-encompassing approach to creativity. By integrating brand identity, typography, packaging, advertising, film,...
by Laura Rote | Oct 30, 2018 | Work
The sleek, 3-inch Impinda is the genius of Oregon knife-maker Bill Harsey. “I simply wanted a good, small knife to go fishing with—something useful for fly-fishing for trout. I’d always thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if you had a knife that was useful in the outdoors...
