Archive for category: Graphic design

‘Eye’ 76 & 77    (2011.02.12)

The best design magazine ever continues its decline

My new PowerPoint technique is unstoppable    (2011.01.11)

There’s a whole chapter in A Visit from the Goon Squad created in PowerPoint. And it works

Obvious question about David Carson’s new magazine    (2011.01.09)

Will Carson be laid out in Quark or in PageMaker?

Best-illustrated article of the year    (2010.12.30)

Christopher Serra’s illustrations for a Journal piece about guy-centric TV

‘Mad Men Unbuttoned’: Sometimes blogs should stay blogs    (2010.12.08)

Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned worked better as postings on the Awl

The crisis in book design (for once, averted)    (2010.12.03)

I have the scoop on the design of the Giller-winning Sentimentalists. Also: Family Compact publishers, could you go fuck yourselves?

Those who fail to learn the lessons of Natalia Ilyin are doomed to repeat them    (2010.08.22)

Design Is History is the new site that perpetuates the misapprehension that “design history” is a sequence of discrete jumps

TTC: We’ll sell your work to Bombardier if we want    (2010.06.11)

TTC induced designers to work on spec designing streetcar interiors, which it can then turn around and simply hand to Bombardier

What’s design criticism worth? About 12¢    (2010.05.28)

Established design critic John Thackara thinks kids today should live in squats and write design criticism for 12¢ a pageview