Candidate Zohran Mamdami was a longshot to be elected mayor of New York City. The old politics, as it were, had to be reimagined, in part, through new typographic ideas—and this campaign at once revived… Read More »The Daily Heller: Typecasting Zohran Mamdami
There’s a growing sense that as AI makes polished, technically “perfect” design easier and more ubiquitous, imperfection is becoming a marker of authenticity. Rough edges, odd spacing, visible process, hand-drawn elements, and even mistakes are… Read More »Jagged Little Thrill
David Maciel is a 21 year old student from Santa Ana, California, studying graphic design at Laguna College of Art and Design. If you somehow find him, you’ll probably notice that he has his head… Read More »What Matters to David Maciel
Anna and Elena, identical twins known by the nom d’crayon The Balbusso Twins, see their collaboration as a symbiotic process where they “melt into a single multi-creative identity.” Although their extremely fluid geometric style has… Read More »The Daily Heller: Four Eyes With One Vision
Gemma Correll, UK-born-California-based, is part of a club that requires no membership application. Its doors are open whether you like it or not if you suffer, as so many do, from anxiety and depression. But… Read More »The Daily Heller: Trapped in an Amusement Park of Depression and Despair
Some places resist branding. Not because they lack identity, but because their identity is too vast, too layered, too alive to be reduced to a logo, a slogan, or a neatly packaged campaign. The Brazilian… Read More »How Do You Brand a Living Ecosystem? Brazil’s New Amazon Identity Offers an Answer.