Shanghai-based artist Mmatcha, also known as Lichen Zhu, focuses on small moments of daily life and the characters that inhabit them in her joyfully tonal illustrations. Mmatcha’s journey as an illustrator has taken her on… Read More »Mmatcha’s beautiful tonal illustrations capture the countless details of daily life
Several months ago, I had the opportunity to interview Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris, an entomologist who works for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service because I wanted to highlight her work and the… Read More »News From a Changing Planet: The Science of Farming
In the previous installment of this series, How Pro-Life Became a Marketing Campaign, we met John and Barbara Willke, leaders of the pro-life photographic campaign in the early 1970s. While the Willkes disseminated fetal imagery,… Read More »The Semiotics of a Movement: Picturing Life and Death
Craig Frazier, a designer and illustrator who has appeared in this column before with small book projects, is back today with an altogether different bookmaking concept. Prior to sending his forthcoming monograph Drawn (February) to… Read More »The Daily Heller: Barnstorming a New Book
How does one instantly communicate a love of music and beats? Well, a beating heart might just do it, and it forms the basis of a new identity for Deezer, an independent music streaming service… Read More »Koto’s refreshed identity for music platform Deezer is built on a beating heart
German type foundry Dinamo has collaborated with art and design studio BNAG to create a new dot matrix font that works hand-in-hand with their new line of spontaneous metal furniture brackets. Most furniture is specially… Read More »Type foundry Dinamo creates riveting new dot font based on furniture screws