A blend of international and cross-cultural forces helped shape modern design. As the world became more interconnected and technologically advanced, designers responded in turn—devising new ideas, trends, techniques and products that quickly spread across the… Read More »The Daily Heller: The Birth of Industrial Modernism
The Los Angeles designer has turned the maths of motherhood into art, pairing sharp visuals with an essay that’s funny, angry and backed by hard numbers. There’s a particular kind of maths that creative mothers… Read More »Rachel Many’s posters highlight how creative mothers are paying twice for an industry in freefall
The Los Angeles designer has turned the maths of motherhood into art, pairing sharp visuals with an essay that’s funny, angry and backed by hard numbers. There’s a particular kind of maths that creative mothers… Read More »Rachel Many’s posters highlight how creative mothers are paying twice for an industry in freefall
This Edinburgh-based interior designer applied for hundreds of jobs after graduating and got nowhere. Eventually, he decided his “too bold” portfolio wasn’t the problem—it was the brief. Harry Matuszewicz-Milne spent 10 years as a mental… Read More »Harry Matuszewicz-Milne was rejected for 550 design jobs, so he built Acid House Designs instead
Love & War’s identity for Shaver Hall shows how naming, history and a forgotten icon can turn adaptive reuse into a genuine creative opportunity. Every city has at least one building everyone walks past without… Read More »Fifth Avenue food hall identity highlights how a person can trump a mood board
There’s something clarifying about hearing the design industry talk about itself in a city that has spent the last century being rebuilt by designers. Berlin doesn’t let you forget that design is a thing people… Read More »Made on Purpose: Notes From iF Design Berlin