The images of official White House photographers have always been shared widely. What made Pete Souza's tenure with the Obama White House different was that social media — and especially Instagram, founded in 2010 — gave him a popular new platform that previous photographers in the role didn't have.
The greatest artistic fame might be the kind where few people know your name but everyone knows your work, because it feels as inevitable to the everyday culture as fire or the wheel. The fact that one person had to invent it from nothing gets forgotten, or overlooked, as the...
Back in the day, diversity in the field of graphic design was far from visible. While studying in the early 90’s we learned of famous designers like Saul Bass, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, and more. Although these designers changed the way graphic design is seen, we did not see graphic...
In the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop culture was just beginning to form at large musical gatherings called jams. In abandoned buildings packed with people, a group of DJs developed techniques like sampling, breakbeats, scratching, cutting, and backspinning. But news of a jam didn’t spread by word of mouth...
Fritz Kahn was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer.
ON-TYPE: Texts on Typography, on view at the Bauhaus Archive from May 8 to August 5, 2013, is an interactive exhibition conveying milestones from the history of typography over more than 100 years. The exhibition will offer a multisensory experience of the way in which one font is never equivalent to another....
To observe its 50th anniversary of publishing, GDUSA is presenting selected results all year of a massive poll about who you respect and what you admire. Last time around, the magazine listed it’s “readers choice” of the most influential graphic designers and firms of the past 50 years. This time around, GDUSA looks at...
American Photography 29 Call For Entries is open to all photographers, art directors, designers, editors, agencies and publishers. Regarded as the book of record, American Photography is still produced in all its defiant, large-format, luxurious, hard cover glory, offering high visibility and well-deserved recognition. Submit your best work to be presented...
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from February 22 through May 22, 2013, will feature work by 22 artists and collectives representing some of the most compelling and innovative voices in South and Southeast Asia today. Focusing on...
A heartfelt thank you goes out to everyone who is part of George Gabin’s – Student Retrospective Fundraiser. Over the past week we’ve collected a total of 65 pieces of original artwork and creative from over 50 exceptionally talented artists. The show has been hung with care and you’ll leave...