A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

Ben Sheppard, Design for Good’s co-founder and chair, shared the alliance’s “secret history” at Fortune’s Brainstorm Design conference in Macau on Dec. 5.

The Swiss style (sometimes called the International Typographic Style) of design is the main period of design that come to mind and deserves attention for any discussion on the history of flat ...

The need for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) began shortly after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but it took a hundred years for it to ultimately come into focus in the 1960s ...

When you take a step back and think about it, airspace design—and the air traffic control system that dictates it—is a small miracle. Actually, it’s a pretty big one.This complex set of ...

When I began combing through the archive of barcode history at Stony Brook University, I realized just how close we came to a world where we scan bull’s-eye or sun symbols to buy our groceries ...

“Most graphic design historians and poster collectors are quite familiar with Erik Nitsche’s series for General Dynamics; they’re known as a touchstone in mid-century corporate design. He essentially ...

On July 5, 1946, the first-ever bikini, where the navel was exposed, was revealed to the world. Louis Réard designed the black and white swimsuit which featured newspaper clipping art.