by Laura Rote | Dec 11, 2019 | Insights
1. I’d wish I’d known succinctly that hard work would pay off. I was frustrated by the perceived ghosts you’d hear about. I thought you needed glowing accreditations and prestigious college degrees and a host of frivolities like “good looks” and “family money” and...
by Laura Rote | Nov 26, 2019 | Insights
Melanie Perkins was studying at the University of Western Australia when she dropped out to build her first company. She’s since cofounded Canva, which more than 18 million people in 190 countries use every month to design. Canva has repeatedly been named the best...
by Grace Perry | Nov 13, 2019 | Interviews
Silver Lake is full of chic homes owned by chic people, but few in LA can claim a vista like Roanne Adams’ on the Silver Lake reservoir. Inside, I felt like I was in one of Roanne’s Instagram posts—neat and deliberate—but among her many to-do lists and the scattered...
by Tracy Kaler | Oct 28, 2019 | Interviews
On a Tuesday morning, the top floor of Pentagram’s Manhattan studio is reasonably quiet with a few staff milling about, yet the loft-like space radiates an undeniable energy. At this address, brilliant ideas are born, be it a brand’s logo, a corporate identity, or a...
by Laura Rote | Aug 1, 2019 | Insights
The partner and designer at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv shares his lessons learned, having designed more than 60 identity programs, from the US Open Tennis Championships to Harvard University Press and more. Manage expectations. “A logo cannot say very...
by Jane Gayduk | Jul 10, 2019 | Interviews
Stefan Sagmeister appreciates a good view. His design studio, Sagmeister & Walsh, which he runs with his partner Jessica Walsh, overlooks New York City’s bustling Broadway Avenue, the Flatiron portion, and his West Village apartment looks out on 14th Street. He...
by Studio Sixtysix | Jun 4, 2019 | Photography
Graphic design, art direction, photography—CactuSoup has been doing all this and more for businesses and institutions for about a decade. Cofounders Francesca Basile and Blai Baules also spend about half their time creating stock photography for Stocksy (an...
by Chris Force | May 23, 2019 | News
Sixtysix magazine is back with our sophomore print issue, delving further into “the craft of creativity” with living legends and emerging voices of the global design community. The nearly 200-page issue is available worldwide now. The Spring/Summer 2019...
by Laura Rote | May 22, 2019 | Insights
Typographer Tobias Frere-Jones has been collecting since he was a boy. Over the years, his passion zeroed in on the lettering within his collections, and he felt driven to dig even deeper, dissecting historic typefaces, collecting anecdotes, and amassing an assortment...
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 Stephen Gossett | May 14, 2019 | Illustration
It’s safe to say that Perry Shall is a T-shirt guy. There are the T-shirts he sells at his online shop, which sport the illustrator and graphic designer’s custom prints. Then there’s his personal collection, a whopping assemblage that now numbers in excess of...
by Stephen Gossett | Mar 21, 2019 | Graphic Designers
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...
