Some typefaces scream for attention. Detail, a new rounded family from PSTL, does something far more interesting: it quietly wins you over. Detail is very like the studio where it was born. PSTL is the… Read More »The Devil’s in the Details—and This Typeface Knows It
Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art, Rand’s first of three self-authored essay anthologies, premiered in 1985. I was in part responsible for the review. Mike Levitas was editor during some of my tenure as art director… Read More »The Daily Heller: Snagging the Front Page
Solitude in Transit © Hannah Li After more than twenty illustrated books, the New York-based artist has stepped back from publishing to chase something more personal: the way light holds a room, a station or… Read More »How Hannah Li paints light, and the quiet moment just before something happens
Murugiah. Image credit: Jack Woodhams The London-based artist behind the Quentin Blake Centre’s debut solo show talks to us about parent pressure, pandemic breakthroughs and learning to stop making other people’s art. On day one… Read More »Multidisciplinary artist Murugiah on why your most personal work is always the most creative
The new identity leans into the contrasts that make Hiut what it is: industry alongside nature, utility alongside craft… right down to a typeface drawn from the makers’ own signatures. There’s a lovely bit of… Read More »Pentagram’s Hugh Miller rebrands Hiut, the Welsh denim label bringing jeans-making back to Aberteifi
Finger Lickin’ Good. Few fast-food brands have a piece of packaging as iconic as the KFC bucket. First introduced by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1957, the bucket has become one of the most recognizable packaging… Read More »KFC’s Latest Refresh From JKR Celebrates Its Most Iconic Asset