In early 2015, designers Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker were shown a 35,000-square-foot, dirty gray concrete wall that would be the view from one-third of the more than 1000 apartments in “The Max,” a complex… Read More »Mural, Mural on the Wall, Which is the Largest and Most Inventive of All?
Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers. This facet of the project is a request of… Read More »What Matters to Jennifer Grasso
With apologies to my learned editor/colleague Zachary Petit, who scrupulously scans the shops each month for the best-designed book covers and jackets, I have an urge to include an additional few. In the realm of… Read More »The Daily Heller: Four Novel Graphic Novel Covers
Using the letters on the façade of the well-known Great Northern Warehouse, the foundry created a font that “breaks modern expectations”. Manchester-based type foundry F37 has revived the facade brick lettering on the Great Northern… Read More »F37 designs a typeface that embodies the ‘charm and idiosyncrasy’ of industrial Manchester
The life and works of one of the UK’s most beloved author-illustrators, Raymond Briggs, are going on display at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft. Featuring treasures from the span of his 60-year career, Bloomin’… Read More »Explore the life and works of Raymond Briggs in the late author illustrator’s first curated show
Responsibilization in Practice I was socialized in a business structure modeled from the military structure my grandfather (also named Sam) operated in as an army private during WWII — one which can probably be traced… Read More »Business Design School: Decentralized Decision-Making