European app makers are seething, comparing Apple to “the Mafia” and piling pressure on lawmakers to act.

Don’t panic. Instead, teach your beloved offspring to answer the Three Questions of Streaming.

Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR.

The animation studio’s artists are masters at tweaking light and color to trigger deep emotional responses.

For some of us—isolates, happy in the dark—code is therapy, an escape and a path to hope in a troubled world.

Typefaces that can be freely used and modified give others a chance to hone their craft—and share valuable feedback.

Every morning, Lena Forsen wakes up beneath a brass-trimmed wooden mantel clock dedicated to "The First Lady of the Internet."

On a rainy day in San Francisco, a dozen or so designers sat crammed around a conference table inside Reddit's headquarters.

The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally.

In 1975, the Environmental Protection Agency had a problem. Not an existential threat, like the agency faces today, but a problem nonetheless. The EPA-still young at the time-was a mess. Graphically speaking, anyway. "There was no standardization at all," says Tom Geismar, a graphic designer best known for his role in crafting logos for NBC, Mobil, Chase Bank, and eventually the EPA.

The most interesting thing about Herzog and De Meuron's newly opened concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, isn't its wave-like facade, which rises above the city of Hamburg, Germany. It's not the gently curved elevator at the base of the lobby that deposits you into the belly of the Swiss architects' alien landscape.

Arrival is, to be sure, an alien flick. But under that sci-fi veneer is a film about communication, and the effort required to understand someone (or, in this case, some thing) who looks and speaks differently than you do.

It was a messy year for logos. The presidential candidate with penetrative, Web-1.0-style graphics won. America's largest art museum drew ire from critics for deviating from its iconic emblem. The Tokyo Organizing Committee scrambled to find a new symbol for the 2020 Olympics, after its original selection faced allegations of plagiarism.

Venture into the offices of many young tech companies and you'll notice a certain aesthetic-scrappy yet stark, with an undertone of sophomoric bemusement. Lots of wood and polished concrete, bright colors, that sort of thing. As companies mature, so to do their offices. Things get more polished, more professional, more ...