MoMA New York has acquired eight of The New York Times Op-Ed pages designed and art directed by Mirko Ilic created from 1992 to 1993 for ...

Sports uniforms have long been ugly. That so many people like to wear the jerseys and hats of their favorite teams has little to do with ...

Boxed matches did not set Iran ablaze when in January 1978 the revolution lit the way for the end of the Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) dynasty, ...

I’ve had the good fortune to be part of the W.A. Dwiggins circle for more than three decades. And I’m privileged to have authored a forew...

Siglio Press gets my vote for publishing the best books combining avant garde art with graphic design and typography. Last year I gave a ...

Poul Lange, a collagist, has designed book jackets for more than three decades now (see poullange.com), and it is still one of his favori...

100 years ago yesterday, on February 16, the small Baltic nation Lithuania restored its independence. The Act of Reinstating Independence...

Those of a certain age. My age and a few before and a bunch after were devotees of dry transfer lettering/type as well as benday, continu...

MAD magazine was founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, first launched as a comic book and then after th...

English cartoonist/illustrator Arthur Wragg (1903–1976) (featured last week) produced books on Christian Socialist themes mainly between ...

José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913) was a Mexican engraver and printmaker known for his satirical and politically stinging calaveras. Deriv...

Marcel’s Letters by Carolyn Porter (Sky Horse Publishing, 2017) is part-memoir and part-detective tale about the creation of a type font ...

These days when we think Russia, we think election tampering, Putin authoritarianism and the future of peace and well-being. As a respite...

Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America (Artisan Books) by Bonnie Siegler is inspiring celebration of the right to di...

Arthur Wragg (1903-1976) was an artist, illustrator and social commentator using Christianity as his lens. In the 30s he conceived and il...

What does it take for me—or anyone who commissions or buys design and illustration—to actually open a physical snail mail envelope these ...

The Japanese have long been masters of packaging design and production. Remember the influential book How To Wrap 5 Eggs? These package l...

As many already know, Print is ceasing its printed magazine and retaining an online presence. Once there were many graphic design and pri...

Laura Crawford was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Laura and I share the disease, but not the  same symptoms or emotional responses. ...

What will happen if the stable environment that has supported the aspirations of preceding generations over the last 10,000 plus years we...