We’re used to thinking of brands as advertisers. They buy space, optimize for attention, and measure success in impressions and conversions. But over the last decade, something else has taken root: brands are no longer… Read More »If Brands Are Today’s Patrons, Whose Culture are We Funding?
My grandparents kept two framed prints on a wall over my father’s childhood bed (the one I used when I stayed over at their apartment in the Bronx). One was by the Mexican social activist… Read More »The Daily Heller: Ben Shahn Returns to the New York Art Scene
Hello hello. Design for a new edition of Wolfgang Streeck’s How Will Capitalism End?, published by the wonderful folks at Verso. More of this sort of rectangly wordy picture vibe can be found at danielgray.com.… Read More »Meanwhile: Humanness not Pictureness
For a new specimen book and self-promo, Contrast Foundry (CoFo, familiarly) wanted to explore ways to highlight the retail typefaces and give designers a fun way to play with font pairings. The foundry enlisted the… Read More »Build a Tasty Font Pairing with Hamburgerfonts
Somewhere between the Anthropocene dog spa and the Instagram-friendly kibble bowl, something got lost. Dogs, living, breathing, dogs, have been slowly gentrified. Dogs have been humanized, perfumed, dressed up, diet-tracked, and reduced to little lifestyle… Read More »Filth Is Freedom: Mud Reclaims the Animal in Pet Care
There’s a new journal in town for design research and writing. FL:2ND, or second floor, highlights the thesis essays by the 2025 graduates of SVA’s MA Design, Research, Writing & Criticism (aka D-Crit) program, chaired… Read More »The Daily Heller: Next Stop, the 2NDFL Design Journal