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A New Book Explores the Iterative Nature of Milton Glaser’s Designs

Penned by the late design icon himself, Sketch & Finish juxtaposes over 70 finished works with original sketches, which he called "pictures of the brain."

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Olympic Games—The Design Documents Over a Century of Olympic Visual Identities

The book shows how Olympic design encapsulates global politics and culture; in doing so, it serves as a de facto history of 20th-century graphic design.

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Colorful Japanese Posters Take Over Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum

The exhibition, spanning over 80 years of Japanese graphic design, is a tribute to designer Shigeru Watano's long-standing relationship with the museum.

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Unpacking the Love Affair Between the LGBTQ Community and Design

The new survey book Queer x Design, written by Andy Campbell, chronicles the development of queer design, foregrounding politics and activism.

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New Color Technologies Are Challenging CMYK’s Hegemony

Color Library: Research into Color Reproduction and Printing shows how new color printing advances are blurring the lines between color reality, representation, and reproduction.

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Bard Graduate Center Exhibition Shines a Light on the Influential New Typography Movement

The show features materials collected by designer Jan Tschichold and created by the movement's many members, including El Lissitzky, Kurt Schwitters, and László Moholy-Nagy.

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The Illuminating Illustrations of Civil Rights Activist W.E.B. Du Bois

Du Bois’s 1900 Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America illustrated the progress of newly-freed African Americans and is being published for Du Bois’s 150th birthday.

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New Exhibition Highlights Three Groundbreaking Woman Graphic Designers

On view at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York, a new show celebrates the work of Anni Albers, Elaine Lustig Cohen, and Rosmarie Tissi.

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The Indiana Magazine Highlighting its State’s Oft-Overlooked Architecture and Design Luminaries

Brothers Jon and James Sholly are founders of the Indianapolis-based graphic design studio Commercial Artisan, so when they launched Commercial Article, an offshoot publication, in 2005, they understandably saw it as a s

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Legendary Graphic Design Firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv Is Releasing a 60-Year Monograph

The New York firm, founded in 1957 and still in operation, has produced many iconic logos for corporate America.

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New Book from MIT Honors Pioneering Graphic Designer Muriel Cooper

Cooper is not in the pantheon of "great men" of graphic design, despite being the rare or even singular figure whose achievements were marked in both print and digital media.

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Straight for the Gut: MOLD Positions Food as the Next Design Frontier

With ambitions to tackle the global food crisis, the new design pub isn't your typical feel-good foodie mag.

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A New Subway Map for New York City?

At the opening of New York City’s Second Avenue Subway, passengers were given updated copies of the beloved 1972 map by Massimo Vignelli. But, taboo though it may be to say, this attractive map is far from what New Yor

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The Teapot That Changed Computer Graphics History

In 1974, computer scientist Martin Newell complained to his wife: he needed a better model for graphical experimentation.

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50 Classic Book Covers Redesigned, Ready to Hit the Road

A successful Kickstarter campaign means that 50x50, an exhibit that showcases 50 redesigned classic book covers, will reach all 50 states by 2017.