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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. >
Resetting the rules in advertising

Efficiency has become more of a priority than creativity, says award-winning Brazilian adman PJ Pereira. >
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. >
How to create a portfolio that will get you hired

Industrial designer Amina Horozic shares some of the insights from her new book "Breaking In" on how to create a winning showcase of your work. >
Battle of the Jazz Guitarist

This short film by Mark Columbus is a twisting but sincere portrayal of the complex relationship between father and son. >
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. >
A hand-drawn music video

Stefan Bucher's perfectly flowing animation of this music video belies the painstaking work behind it. He tells us about the ups and downs of making it. >
Bamboo engineering

Building with bamboo is not new but researchers at MIT are exploring new ways of creating construction products from the sustainable resource. >
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. >
A helping hand

A new smart tool from MIT Media Lab is blurring the lines between handmade and digital technology. But that's not a bad thing. >
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: Spoek Mathambo & Xander Ferreira

Over a Skype call, South African musicians Spoek Mathambo and Xander Ferreira (Gazelle) talk about the changing landscape of making music in South Africa. >
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. >

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