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Pentagram Designing the Doomsday Clock
The simple, brutal image captures scientists’ level of anxiety about technologies that could destroy humanity.
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Gustau Nacarino / Reuters Gaudí’s Basilica: Almost Finished After 132 Years
132 years later, Barcelona’s fantastical Sagrada Família is approaching the last stage of its construction.
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Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum The First Book of Selfies
A 16th-century German accountant compiled a book of personal fashion that rivals today’s Instagrammers in detail and dedication.
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Gran Fury Can Posters Still Change the World?
For centuries, printed and mass-produced signs have helped activists spread the message of everything from AIDS awareness to the plight of Syrian refugees.
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wildtexas / Flickr ‘The Meatball’ vs. ‘The Worm’: How NASA Brands Space
The space agency’s current symbol, a beloved signal of the agency’s storied past, wasn’t always so beloved.
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Susan Walsh / AP 10 Responses to Iran-Deal Skeptics
The top lobbyist for the agreement, along with John Kerry’s former chief of staff, answer a prominent critic’s questions for President Obama.
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Chris Capuozzo Tag Team: The Graffiti Artists of Show Me a Hero
The graphic designer Chris Capuozzo used photographs of Yonkers taken by his wife during the 1980s in order to achieve verisimilitude for the HBO show’s sets.
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Ai Weiwei / Flickr Ai Weiwei’s 600 Days of Flowers
For almost two years, the Chinese artist and dissident has been cataloguing his inability to leave the country with bouquets. But the protest ended Wednesday with the return of his passport.
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United States Postal Service Can Design Help the USPS Make Stamps Popular Again?
The Postal Service's new Forever stamp series, 'Summer Harvest,' targets two kinds of audiences: foodies and nostalgics.
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Courtesy of Sunni Brown The Cognitive Benefits of Doodling
Some new books tout the benefits of informal drawing and freehand scribbling—even for the unartistic.
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Bologna, Collezioni Comunali d'Arte The Selfie and the Self
At the end of June, millions of Facebook users changed their profile pictures to rainbows to show support for same-sex marriage—rooting themselves in a portraiture tradition that’s long used symbols to define and express identity.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How Nike Turned Running Shoes Into Fashion
The company’s long-serving chairman, Phil Knight, insisted that he wasn’t in the shoe business. He was in the entertainment business.
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Courtesy of Jerry Kelly An Untimely Loss, a Timely Memorial
The great German type designer Hermann Zapf died at age 96, weeks before the 70th anniversary of the UN Charter—whose preamble he hand-lettered more than half a century ago.
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Courtesy of Jonathon Rosen and Joshua Yumibe Beyond Black and White: The Forgotten History of Color in Silent Movies
Filmmakers were using dyes, stencils, baths, and tints as early as the late-19th century.
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Courtesy of Warren Dotz ‘They're Grreeaat!’: The Enduring Charm of Advertising Characters
Tony the Tiger, the Jolly Green Giant, and Mr. Clean give a likable human face to their products.
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Apple / IBM / The Atlantic How Apple and IBM Marketed the First Personal Computers
In 1977, companies building PCs had to try to convince the American public that this confusing new technology was missing from their lives.
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The Atlantic ‘You've Come a Long Way, Baby’: The Lag Between Advertising and Feminism
Even at the height of ‘women’s liberation,’ products aimed to female consumers were actually marketed to men.
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Courtesy of George Lois / The Atlantic Revisiting the Work of One of the 20th Century's Best Ad Men
Fresh from the industry’s creative revolution in the 1960s, the art director George Lois helped make some of the greatest advertisements of the modern era.
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R.O. Blechman Reviving a Beloved Forbear of the Graphic Novel
An unsung treasure that influenced the likes of Maurice Sendak, the picture book The Juggler of Our Lady will be reprinted for a new generation.
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The Dark Side of Design
An experimental online exhibition hosted by the Museum of Modern Art explores the intersection of design and violence in a post-9/11 world.
