The idea of a blank piece of paper is somehow a touchstone for all our hopes and fears. Each new analog sheet or digital file holds out the possibility of creating something fresh that matters, that ...
Each year Pantone reveals its Color of the Year, a prediction of which color it thinks will be particularly significant in the months to come. Last year it was Tangerine Tango, which I don’t recall ...
Sure, times are still tough and the forces of neoliberal capitalism continue to run roughshod over the planet. But is that any reason to despair? I should say not. After all, the good guys are still ...
That’s the question you might well ask yourself, after perusing the clip below. It provides a taste of what’s on the DVD accompanying the latest issue of IdN magazine, which includes 96 ...
We know Vincent Van Gogh pretty well, thanks to his many self-portraits, but actual photographs of him are rare. In fact, there seems to be just one (shown below) and it’s not entirely authenticated. ...
By day Chris Gavin creates TV commercials, promos and web films. But in his free time he turns to his own short films, such as TXT Island, described as ‘A typographical tale of epic misadventure.’ ...
Sculptor Joshua Harker hit a home run with his first Kickstarter project, Crania Anatomica Filigre: Me to You, which he claims is now the site’s most-funded sculpture project. The filigreed, ...
New York City-based Tien-Min Liao set out on a novel typographic experiment — to explore the relationship between uppercase and lowercase letters via the transformations between them. To that ...
While our digital tools have acquired an astonishing sophistication, it’s hard to imagine a future in which the fundamental humanity of the hand-drawn line has lost its ability to move us. The ...
When you think of contemporary product designers, people like Philippe Starck or Jonathan Ive come to mind. We’ve come to see designers as larger-than-life entities, who from some Olympian perch ...