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
The artist on quitting the client-pleasing grind, sticking to a regular drawing habit, finding vitality in art-making, and building enormous, hand-cut paper flowers on the floor. “In an age when almost anything can be copied,… Read More »Why Ayong Son left agency life in Seoul to draw five things a day
A retrospective of iconic work by the English illustrator/designer George Hardie will be mounted during the London Design Festival, Sept. 12–20, at Wiedemann Lampe Gallery. Hardie is well-known for the memorably surreal album covers he… Read More »The Daily Heller: Five Decades of George Hardie’s Design in London
This has been a terribly sad week. Now departed are individuals who have broadened the culture while making their individual marks. Of these, the passing of artist Yayoi Kusama at 97 hits closest to me.… Read More »The Daily Heller: My Brush With Kusama, Revisited
The self-taught Johannesburg painter borrows the language of 17th-century still life and fills it with Rubik’s cubes, Coke bottles, and PlayStation controllers, plucked from your childhood bedroom in the early 2000s. The 2000s seem to… Read More »Matthew Blackburn gives PS1 controllers and Froot Loops the old-master treatment
I skipped GTA 5 on purpose because it never let me play as a woman. Thirteen years later, Rockstar has finally fixed that (sort of). And after 26 minutes of in-game footage, I’m booking the… Read More »What GTA 6’s Extended Look tells us about Vice City, Lucia, and the biggest creative launch of the decade