What does it look like working at a legacy newspaper in 2023? Martina Ibañez-Baldor of the LA Times can tell us. Ibañez-Baldor has been working at the heralded publication for eight years, cutting her teeth by designing on the… Read More »Martina Ibañez-Baldor of the LA Times Helps Launch New Latinidad Platform, De Los
In 2008 I wrote about artist and designer Julian Montague’s comprehensive taxonomy of The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America, an incomparable documentation of this common fixture of the urban landscape that “helps us… Read More »The Daily Heller: The Abandoned American Shopping Cart
Taking literal inspiration from its name, Design Bridge and Partners has crafted a fresh identity for The Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. At its core is The Archer, built on the legendary Artemis… Read More »Design Bridge and Partners shoots for the stars in new identity for The Archer School for Girls
Stockholm-based designer and educator Jenny Theolin encourages creatives to break free from routines and engage with meaningful learning experiences in her new book, Dare to Facilitate. Jenny Theolin seems to enjoy a challenge. Her latest… Read More »Jenny Theolin shakes up creative management in daring new book
Best-selling German-American author and illustrator Nora Krug has documented two anonymous, first-hand accounts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in her powerful new graphic non-fiction book, Diaries of War. Here, she explains how the medium lent… Read More »Diaries of War: illustrator Nora Krug on depicting raw accounts of the war in Ukraine
Monotype announced this week that it has expanded its collaboration with Canva to make design (and typography) accessible to students and classrooms. Co-authored by Monotype and Canva, the educational series includes lecture topics, in-class discussions,… Read More »Monotype and Canva Launch a Five-Part Type Curriculum for Classrooms