Edel Rodriguez, Jody Quon, Jaap Biemans, and Tom Alberty on the changing role of covers in today’s hyperpolitical times.

Last summer, while browsing the fiction aisles at Powell’s Books in Portland, a fat black spine caught my attention.

You don’t understand the power of illustration.

Design has become intertwined with the most harmful dynamics of the social web.

Ahead of July 4th, we spoke with one of the US’s biggest pyrotechnics brands about its showy graphic design.

Code and Theory's approach to editorial web design is equal parts strategy and sprezzatura.

The next frontier in branding is all about your nose.

In the vast, ever-expanding canon of graphic design publishing, one title stands in a league of its own.

“Just one.” So went the particularly cruel prompt that we issued a medley of designers from the publishing industry as 2021 drew to a close.

It's hard (impossible, really) to encapsulate all of the aesthetic whims that happen over the course of the year.

What do you get when you mix an '80s cyberpunk action film with typography?

Ask the nearest designer for an example of good design, and they'll mostly likely name drop some big brand logos.

Hey, so you're a monk. It's about 1440AD and you're just chilling out in your quarters, listening to a bit of chanting through the stone walls.