Autumn is a good time for career invention. But that doesn’t mean you should. After the searing heat of summer, autumn has finally arrived: hooray! But while the weather might be more relaxed, a lot… Read More »Should you rebrand yourself this September, or just hold your nerve?
The esteemed university has decided the two disciplines need no longer be strangers. And the timing could hardly be better. Remember the old days, when everyone sat in their little silos, and never the twain… Read More »The Royal College of Art is bringing communication and design together in one school, and that’s big news
When PRINT was a printed magazine I wrote a brief column dubbed “Separated at Birth” (the title was ripped off from a regular feature in SPY magazine). My purpose was to make distinctions between influence… Read More »The Daily Heller: Return to Separated at Birth
The artist behind the Substack In The Filing Cabinet is on a mission to preserve her family’s table. From her mother’s homemade chutney to her late father’s lentil daar – one appetising artwork at a… Read More »How illustrator Azra Hirji turns the family table into an archive of food, migration and memory
Two years, five characters, and 42 pairs of creative hands were behind the London studio’s most ambitious project, and also its most honest. We sit down with Vicky Ghose, Mike Moloney and Stephen Middleton to… Read More »Art&Graft’s In Pursuit of Magic is a reminder of why we do this at all
From a custom typeface for a fictional field of “therolinguistics” to a book that 3D prints its own instructions, the Singapore-based designer explains how research and language shape his work. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s… Read More »Darius Ou on building type systems from sci-fi, linguistics and G-code