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Design advice from New York

Three New York design legends share lessons from their careers in graphic design. >
A brief personal history of illustration

The legendary graphic designer Seymour Chwast gives us a bird's-eye view of the period styles that have shaped the industry. >
There’s no place like here: Brazenhead Books

A short movie about a secret second-hand bookshop and its determined owner. >
Well-heeled

"Killer Heels" at the Brooklyn Museum explores the cultural history of the high heel. >
Stephen Doyle: Magic, nonsense and macramé

The New York-based graphic designer's love for words is so big, he's not content to leave them on the page. >
Milton Glaser's "10 Things I Have Learnt"

The celebrated graphic designer on the limits of being professional, why style is not to be trusted and other career (and life) lessons. >
Subway reading

The NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual, a feat of design brilliance by Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda, is about to be turned into a book. >
A multilingual typeface

Azer, co-designed by Wael Morcos, is a family of fonts that can be used in Arabic script, English and Latin variations. >
Adventures in Venture Land

Steven Heller and Lita Talarico, co-founders and co-chairs of SVA's MFA Design programme, tell us why today's designers need to also think like entrepreneurs. >
Joy McKinney: Studies in awkwardness

This photographer puts herself in awkward social positions to challenge the socially accepted boundaries between people. >
Casey Neistat: The maverick filmmaker

Meet the YouTube sensation who is redefining what it means to be a filmmaker. >
Ordinary Love by U2

The video for U2's song, written for the movie "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom", uses animated type as an artful tribute to Madiba. >
Finger ballet

Pentagram's Abbott Miller has designed an app that allows users to choreograph their own ballet sequences. >
Lookbook: Word Cup

Facebook communication designer and football fanatic Ji Lee creates a league of his own with his Word Cup challenge. >
Inside Out: Peet Pienaar and Heidi Chisholm

Graphic designers Peet Pienaar and Heidi Chisholm talk about Africa's connection to their work and living abroad. >
Inside Out: Andrew Whitehouse & Matthew Bull

Two South African admen move to New York to start an agency. The punchline? Why not. >
Inside Out: Don Albert & Amanda Laird Cherry

Two great South African creative exports – an architect and a fashion designer – discuss the challenges of flexing their creative muscles on the world stage. >
News: The museum that became a typeface

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum gets its own typeface and gives it away for free thanks to Eddie Opara's bold new identity makeover. >
Kehinde Wiley – An Economy of Grace

This short documentary follows the acclaimed painter from street to studio as he takes on female portraiture for the first time. >
In Studio With: Yves Béhar

Founder and chief designer of Fuseproject Yves Béhar believes creativity is like a superhero. >
In Studio With: Ji Lee

In the third instalment of the Design Indaba In Studio With pilot, you can step into communication designer Ji Lee's New York City apartment. >
In Studio With: Massimo Vignelli

In the launch episode of a new three-part pilot series 'In Studio With' you get an intimate view of design maestro Massimo Vignelli's thinking and approach. >
Historic makeover

Shigeru Ban re-imagines the interior of one of New York City's landmarked building: Cast Iron House. >
From personal memory to shared history

How do you tell the story of one of the most significant events of the 21st century? Instead of one story, Jake Barton uses 10 000 to create the 9/11 Memorial. >

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