Blog: Critical path
20 November 2025
To be seen to be seen
We need these digital spaces to be seen to be seen, from Powerful Space Control Operatives … down to Invisibles (the rest of us).
24 October 2025
Design history in Ankara
The process of diversification is for each generation to re-define, but it is important to embrace the many ways of telling design history.
17 October 2025
The ouroboros of hype
22 May 2024
BIG in Milan
The Biennale Internazionale Grafica (BIG) opens this week, with four days of exhibitions, talks, etc. across Milan.
11 January 2024
Two winners, 2000 losers
Minnesota’s crowd-sourced flag and seal raise questions for professional design practice, writes Steven McCarthy
31 December 2023
Women in the room
The fifth edition of the AIAP Women in Design Awards (AWDA) brought together exemplary work from around the world.
22 May 2023
Patriotic rubbish
The flag has become a marketing tool, soon to become litter poking out of a bin …
15 May 2023
Type for survival
English-speaking designers take it for granted that every typeface will be available in their language …
26 July 2022
Reclaim their names
On graduating from Central Saint Martins’ BA Graphic Communication Design course, Jahnavi Inniss went straight into …
22 November 2021
Style and satire
In March 1962 Private Eye published About, a parody of About Town magazine (see Eye 96) …


