FREITAG is a Swiss brand founded in 1993, known for turning used truck tarps, bicycle inner tubes, and car seat belts into durable, one-of-a-kind bags.
Feb 10, 2026
Painting the worlds of Studio Ghibli with art director and background artist, Yoji Takeshige.
Feb 7, 2026
SK8FACE is a feature documentary that explores the history and transformation of skateboard art and culture. Tracing a 70-year journey from the 1950s, when skateboards were simple wooden planks with roller skate wheels, to the present day, the film shows how skateboard graphics evolved into works displayed in museums worldwide.
Via: Paul Maeda
Feb 5, 2026
Y2K Quarterly is an independent literary magazine devoted to the glory days/nightmares that were the late 90’s and early 2000’s.
Via: Literary Hub by Drew Broussard
Jan 30, 2026
Held annually, Tokyo Art Book Fair brings together independent art publishers, gallery presses, bookshops, and artists from around the world. The fair has grown steadily over the years, now hosting more than 350 participants and welcoming over 20,000 visitors each year.
Photo: Hajime Kato
Jan 28, 2026
McSweeney’s 25 most-read pieces of 2025.
Jan 4, 2026
Literary Hub’s 173 best book covers of 2025 according to 52 book cover designers.
Dec 17, 2025
Good Design Award 2025. The Balmuda toaster draws out bread’s moisture and aroma with steam technology and precise control to elevate your everyday breakfast. Temperature is auto-adjusted to heat any type of bread to a fresh out of the oven state without burning.
Nov 27, 2025
World’s largest photo of New York City.
Sept 10, 2025
The hardest working font in Manhattan.
Aug 17, 2025
Ippei Tsujio’s fresh batch of wrapping paper transforms gifts into perfectly baked loaves.
June 28, 2025
Shimizu’s love for his pen collection motivated him to create a pen case that would not compromise on quality or protection. After finding a team of like-minded craftsmen in Kagawa Prefecture, he launched &Liebe to bring his vision to life.
June 15, 2025
The Folio Society is a London-based publisher that specializes in creating beautifully crafted, finely illustrated hardback editions of classic and contemporary works.
June 7, 2025
Japan Poster Shop is one of the world’s largest Japanese poster galleries, offering over 10,000 original vintage and contemporary Japanese posters.
June 6, 2025
Imogen Ayres, a Glasgow School of Art graduate with a passion for typefaces, is the graphic designer behind anOrdain, a British watch brand specialising in enamel dials.
June 3, 2025
MOFALLA chair made its debut in Ikea’s 1978 catalogue. Then with the name COX. An example of a simple yet modern shape that is now making a comeback.
May 2, 2025
Established in 2015, Actual Source is an American publisher, brand, and book store that collaborates with contemporary artists and designers, to release limited edition books, fonts, clothing, and objects.
May 1, 2025
Good Design 2024 winners. Hachikuri House is a shared residence for people with disabilities. This shared house serves not as an isolated place but as a hub fostering bonds with those sharing similar disabilities and the local community. It provides an inclusive environment for social engagement, including a home care support office, short-stay rooms, and a shared store facing the main street.
March 23, 2025
Susan Meiselas made a name for herself in the 70s when she covered Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution. The day before the dictator President fled Nicaragua, she captured her now famous Molotov Man photograph.
Photo: Susan Meiselas
Jan 24, 2025
In the era of the smartphone, things as physical as a membership card seem to have become almost entirely redundant. But from the late 80s through to the end of the 90s—the heydays of acid house and rave culture—the club membership card was an essential in any nightlife lover’s wallet.
Jan 23, 2025
Winners of the 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards.
Jan 21, 2025
“I think it took about six months for us to actually know what to do with that magazine. We came in, we did a very quick redesign and I think it took us a good few months to understand actually what we’d done and what we were doing.” — Richard Turley
Jan 20, 2025
“Visual research is a critical, ongoing practice for my work as a creative director. I’ve relied on magazines for many years as part of that research.” — Jonathan McGlothin
Jan 10, 2025
The 167 best book covers of 2024 according to 54 book cover designers.
Dec 13, 2024
CAPS LOCK is a reference work that uses clear language and visual examples to show how graphic design and capitalism have come to be inextricably linked. The book features designed objects, but also examines how the professional practice of designers itself supports capitalism. Six radical graphic design collectives are featured that resist capitalist thinking in their own way, inspiring a more sustainable and less exploitative practice of graphic design.
Nov 8, 2024
As a graphic designer and graffitist who has been making work since 1989, German artist neck, who also goes by Oliver, is a big fan of the “beauty and (sometimes) weirdness” of common audiotape design. His ambitious archive project, tapedeck, aims to document the wide range of cassettes produced throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
Aug 29, 2024
Design Reviewed is Matt Lamont’s personal project dedicated to digitally preserving graphic design history and documenting the vast visual culture from the last century.
Aug 20, 2024
Exquisite paintings by Lee Me Kyeoung are an ode to the quaint corner stores of South Korea.
Aug 3, 2024
Featuring a vintage 1957 Explorers Club Annual Dinner hand drawn design, the Explorer Club’s diner mug is made in the USA by Homer Laughlin.
July 21, 2024
The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once considered the densest settlement in the world. Thirty years after it was torn down, former residents and others who worked there shared some of their most vivid recollections of what was known as the “City of Darkness.”
Photo: Greg Girard
July 11, 2024
Peter Mendelsund has been described by the New York Times as “one of the top designers at work today,” and his design work has been described by The Wall Street Journal as “the most instantly recognizable and iconic.”
July 7, 2024
The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes.
Illustration: Andriy Onufriyenko
June 26, 2024
Renowned for his virtuosic ability to work across different genres with an imaginative and multifaceted approach to image making, James Jean fuses contemporary subjects with aesthetic techniques inspired by traditional Chinese scroll paintings, Japanese woodblock prints, and Renaissance portraiture.
Source: KaiKai Kiki Gallery
June 18, 2024
After leaving his position as director of men’s fashion at his showroom to take care of his daughter in September 2005, Scott Schuman began carrying a digital camera around and photographing people he saw on the street whose style he found striking.
Source: Wikipedia
June 1, 2024
When it comes to calligraphy in Asia, China and Japan are usually front and center thanks to traditions stretching back to the early days of the written word. But Thailand shouldn’t be overlooked. The country now boasts a large and innovative scene that embraces everything from contemporary calligraphy and calligraffiti to script-based tattoo art.
Calligraphy: Shi Lin
May 27, 2024
Malika Favre is a French artist based in Barcelona. Her bold, minimal style—often described as Pop Art meets OpArt—is a striking lesson in the use of positive/negative space and color.
May 26, 2024
Naoto Fukasawa’s Hiroshima Arm Chair is a blend of tradition and craft. With perfectly seamed joints, the armchair appears to be hand-carved from a solid block of wood.
May 23, 2024
Tivoli Audio originated in Boston in 2000 with just one radio and the design quickly became a classic.
May 17, 2024
The strange faces and minimal scenes in Japanese illustrator Noritake’s work are utterly charming. Working mainly in monochrome with occasional flashes of blue or peach, the work manages to distil emotions and actions into beautifully crafted one-liners.
May 14, 2024
Critics at the time were not pleased. Assessing the Swiss-born photographer’s grainy, cock-eyed, prowling pictures of tattered flags and ghostly glowing jukeboxes, festering racial injustices and the sad lineup of lost souls who had seen their tethers to the American Dream unceremoniously cut, ...
Photo: Robert Frank
May 9, 2024
Reina Takahashi is an independent paper artist that works with art directors and creative directors to create images for publications, social channels, photo shoot props, and stop-motion animations.
May 5, 2024
The astrology budgeting blog that deciphers the mystery of finance through the stars, artificial intelligence, and simple truth.
May 2, 2024
Everything you need to know about the world of design, from furniture to fashion and craft to architecture. Expect fresh stories, new finds and designers and all the latest news from the world’s most exciting studios.
April 29, 2024
Dorothea Hofmann tells the story of Swiss graphic design from a new perspective. Starting with a deliberate focus on Basel, she paints a differentiated picture of this national graphic design movement.
Photo: Draw Down
April 29, 2024
Inga is a bookshop in Chicago with a focus on self-published and independently distributed artists’ books on art, design, film, theory, and more.
April 28, 2024
Yasuto Sasada’s colorful detailed paintings created by using 0.3mm pens.
April 25, 2024
Notabag founder, Adnan Alicusic, found himself narrowly avoiding an accident on his bicycle, carrying groceries in traffic. It made him wish he had brought his backpack instead of struggling with the plastic sliding along his handlebars. The cogs began turning in his head, and he was inspired to create the original tote bag-backpack hybrid.
April 24, 2024
The Chicago Graphic Design Club is “a community dedicated to building a positive culture within the theory, craft, and practice of graphic design.” Highly recommend joining their Discord channel.
April 23, 2024
Inside an ordinary building on an ordinary street in Hong Kong is one of the world’s most valuable record collections.
April 22, 2024
Visual identity update by Pono Design and Scratch Collective.
April 22, 2024
Based in Taipei, Wang Zhihong crafts a “new design style that blends classicism and modernism.”
April 21, 2024
The winning entries of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest.
Photo: Lee-Ann Olwage for GEO
April 18, 2024
Everything you ever wanted to know about the origins of Dutch design.
Via: Design Observer
April 18, 2024
Vintage-style tees inspired by music, film, artwork, logos, and typography.
April 17, 2024
Live radio stations from around the world.
April 17, 2024
POSUTĀ POSTER: Contemporary Poster Designs from Japan
April 15, 2024
Brand identity by Pact Studio. Hydrosat focuses on providing geospatial intelligence for food security, public safety, and the ennvironment.
April 12, 2024
Running since 1938, what the ultimate study on happiness reveals.
April 11, 2024
Electronic music by Macroblank.
April 10, 2024
TP–7 is built to record sound, music, interviews, and important ideas with zero friction in the highest possible quality.
April 9, 2024
The world’s first knock-type mechanical pencil was released by Pentel in the 1960s, and in 1971 they developed an item with the concept of “a mechanical pencil used in the same way as a fountain pen.” CDT’s version inherits the original design.
April 8, 2024
Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
March 27, 2024
