From contemplative cats to wide-eyed bat skeletons and even Santa on an exercise bike, Ilya Kazakov’s cartoony characters are helping the artist build his own community of fans and clients around the world. Originally from… Read More »Emotional, expressive, evocative: Illustrator Ilya Kazakov is proving that cute is the way forward
That’s a wrap on Paris 2024, and if you’re like me, your life has suddenly lost all sense of meaning. We’ve had the best athletes in the world competing for glory at all hours of… Read More »Oui or Non? Design Experts on the Paris 2024 Olympics Branding
A friend posted something from E! Online about Khloe Kardashian’s “rank for aging slowly” on her Facebook feed last week (and made a very funny joke about it). Yes, it’s clickbait garbage. Also, it had… Read More »We’re All a Little Ageist Sometimes
This week’s guest is designer, writer, and educator Ellen Lupton. She’s written and contributed to at least thirty books including Thinking With Type and Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic… Read More »DesignThinkers Podcast: Ellen Lupton
As a fellow Canadian who’s admired Bruce Mau’s work since my design student days, I was excited to see how his team has breathed new life into The National Ballet of Canada’s (NBOC) visual identity.… Read More »The National Ballet of Canada’s Dances with a New Identity by Bruce Mau Design
It is Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), the first Black science fiction author and Afro-Futurist pioneer, who got me interested in actually reading the genre, rather than just watching the movies. I haven’t read all her… Read More »The Daily Heller: Octavia E. Butler’s Convictions on Predictions