As dream projects go, drawing a 100-page reference atlas covering every corner of the Star Wars universe is right up there. Return of the Jedi came out when I was 13, and I became obsessed… Read More »Mapping the Star Wars galaxy with illustrator Tim McDonagh
In-house design and self-promotion design are some of the most exciting categories to explore because they show what happens when designers have a real connection to the work they’re making. When you design in-house, you… Read More »Made In-House. Made By You. Made to Win.
At the start of 2025, designer Alberto Molina set himself a rule that was simple to explain and hard to sustain: design a brand-new typeface every month for an entire year. The project, called FontMonth,… Read More »FontMonth: One Year, Twelve Typefaces, and a Personal Typographic Laboratory
It’s hard to say something as ever-present butter is “having a moment,” but let’s be real: butter is having a moment. Butter has always been everywhere, but somehow it recently seems to be everywhere even… Read More »‘The Butter Book’ is Fresh Out the Kitchen and Ready for Your Coffee Table
Sandy Mays is a creative director specializing in brand design, experiential environments, and visual storytelling across physical and digital spaces, with work spanning Google, Amazon, McDonald’s, and major live events worldwide. She leads with curiosity,… Read More »What Matters to Sandy Mays
Paul Goldberger, writing in the The New York Times on March 13, brilliantly framed the unsettling thought that Donald Trump is aggressively imposing his aesthetics on the architectural character of Washington, D.C. “As with most… Read More »The Daily Heller: Don’t Turn Your Back on History