Roger van den Bergh’s visual history of the New York City subway map, from a 1972 beautiful minimalist diagram to a clear and functional navigation tool. Before the 1967 Map-Merger: IND, BMT, & IRT In… Read More »A Visual Study of the New York City Subway Map
Without Walter Käch’s 1949 textbook, Schriften, Lettering, Ecritures: The Principle Types of Running Hand and Drawn Characters, we might not have Univers or Helvetica. Students of type design who learned a particular way of looking… Read More »The Most Influential Type Textbook You’ve Never Heard of is Getting a Reprint
Debbie Millman’s ongoing project “What Matters,” an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers, is now in its third year. Each respondent is invited to answer ten identical questions and… Read More »What Matters to Stephen Niedzwiecki
The Vietnam War officially ended on April 30, 1975. The (People’s) North Vietnamese Army entered Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), unifying North and South. This brief Daily Heller originally appeared on Jan. 28, 2018,… Read More »The Daily Heller: When France Fought the Viet Minh
The popular rock band’s single-take marvel combines 29 collaborative robots, infinite mirrors, and precision choreography, all synced to a 78bpm heartbeat. In a cavernous Budapest train station, after 36 failed attempts and with time running… Read More »How OK Go used robots and mirrors to make 2025’s most incredible music video so far
Adobe’s SVP of Design Eric Snowden at Adobe Max A new initiative from the makers of Photoshop aims to bridge the skills gap between education and industry by offering paid opportunities and mentorship to young… Read More »Creative apprenticeships are broken… but now Adobe is trying to fix them