Pentagram’s website for the Federal government provides transparency for the public. But the use of AI tool Midjourney to create 1000+ illustrations exposes a fault line within the creative community. Paula Scher defends it as a modern best practice.
Sister Mary designed a limited edition printed publication for an emerging current affairs brand, The Signal. The team partnered to infuse the inaugural issue with the alternative spirit of underground publishing.
The Slow & Low retrospective book is the first formal piece of formal documentation of Chicago’s lowrider community made up of Chicano, Mexican, Aztec and classic car culture. The story comes to life through the design work of Nick Adam’s team at the Span studio.
VINCENT LIU / BOSTON UNIVERSITY
TRINITY YEUNG / PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN
ALEXANDER SOUKAKOS / PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Legendary designer Ken Carbone, a recipient of the 2012 AIGA medal, is currently a Senior Advisor to the Chicago-based strategic branding firm 50,000feet. He shares with us ten designers, then and now, who have inspired him.
A follow up to two highly successful monographs on the work of Neville Brody showcases projects completed since the mid-1990s. Thematic sections address typographic experimentation, information graphics, cultural subversion, and design systems by a creative legend.
Using glass materials and optical illusions, The Staircase main title sequence builds a sense of uncertainty, dislocation, and the unexpected. Sarofsky is the video production team.
A new Wolff Olins’ rebrand allows The Economist Group to safeguard the editorial independence of The Economist, give other core brands their own value proposition, and link them together with a “red thread.”
The Atlantic has unveiled the cover for its December 2019 issue signaling the magazine’s first substantial redesign since 2008. Most notable: the name is now a simple “A”.
