Tag: design

Four point nine pounds. That's what landed on my desk, in a slipcase built like it expected a fight. Mid-Century Modern Designers, the Phaidon...

Mid-century modern design refuses to stay in the past. Walk into any furniture showroom right now, from IKEA's mainline collections to boutique studios charging...

A reader sent me three quotes last month for the same rebrand brief. One agency said $8,000. Another said $42,000. A third wanted a...

The Art of Less is not a book about owning fewer things. That's the first assumption gestalten wants readers to drop before they even...

A logotype book only earns shelf space if it survives contact with an actual deadline. So I put From Type to Logo, published by...

Almost every designer agrees that brand guideline documents matter, yet almost nobody enjoys building one from scratch. Hence, I spent eleven days testing the...

James Edmondson built OH no Type Co. into one of the most recognizable names in independent type design, and now he's put the whole...

CLIMB is a 20-piece Instagram template pack for Canva, built by Simple Co, and aimed at outdoor brands, fashion labels, and creative studios that...

GridType Vol. 1 just landed from Slanted Publishers, and it does something most type books don't bother with. It shows you the tool, not...

Back in 2024, motion graphics designer William Hansen released a set of five looped animated templates called B-01, built specifically for the bento grid...

Sanzo Wada built his color system almost a century ago, yet nothing on my desk gets touched more often than this little book right...

Substack quietly crossed 50 million active subscriptions this year, with 5 million of those paid. That number matters less than what it represents. Not...