Design Culture
"Yes, and...Yes, but..."
by Wendy Richmond

The challenge of investigating and pushing through set ways of thinking about your work.

Advertising
The Regretted History
by Ernie Schenck

Even though we can’t undo the choices we make as we grope and shamble our way through Adland, we can stop regretting them and start learning from them.

Creativity
Barbara Nessim
by Anne Telford

With enthusiasm and passion for art and culture, undiminished by time, Barbara Nessim surrounds herself with beauty and spends her days creating art that has an ... more

Emerging Media
The Rediscovery of Holograms
by Joe Shepter

There are plenty of good holographic shows to enjoy—and until you see one, you won’t believe how cool they can be.

Business
Great Blogs Outside This Field
by David C. Baker

Thoughtful, provocative, humorous blogs that are authentic, have a point of view and stretch your mind.

Typography
Typographic Hate Lists
by Allan Haley

Type hate has taken on pandemic proportions. Myriad blog posts and YouTube videos by the score condemn hapless designs.

Business
Motion Design Business Practices
by Shel Perkins

Business practices in the field of motion design are still quite fragmented; the hope is that its continued maturity as a professional service ... more

Advertising
What's Your Stargate?
by Ernie Schenck

Creative wormholes exist... those weird locations where the ideas come racing fast and furious and that, for some reason, seem to thrum with creative ... more

Typography
Type Directors Club Turns 65
by Angelynn Grant

Although the club’s name is derived from a now obsolete job, its purpose as an organization for those with a discerning eye for typography is as ... more

Opinion/Commentary
Entrepeneurial Thinking
by Terry Lee Stone

Graphic design’s traditional business model, that of service consultancy, is being challenged by what may be the future: creating products ... more

Design Issues
Learning to Be Happy, Part 2
by DK Holland

In this complex world, full of irony and contradiction, pain and suffering, if we can agree on what we value, that is the hope for the future—for ... more

Design Culture
Seeking Sparks
by Susan Hodara

Inspired public dialogue unearths novel concepts and connections impossible to predict. And, when we're lucky, it enables us to witness brilliance in real ... more

Typography
Akira Kobayashi
by Allan Haley

Akira Kobayashi’s work with Adrian Frutiger and Hermann Zapf, and his explorations of classic sans serif designs, produced valuable typeface revivals. Now he’s ... more

Emerging Media
Interactive TV
by Sam McMillan

A new generation of “smart” televisions is about to do to conventional television, and its handmaiden the advertising industry, what iTunes did to the music ... more

Design Issues
Learning to Be Happy
by DK Holland

If the purpose of evolution is indeed the development of consciousness, we will achieve that only by being open to new possibilities. Open to the ... more