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 ...

The chairs can work within various design styles — used singularly as an accent chair or as a set with Saarinen’s recognizable Tulip table for maximum impact. The Tulip Chair, Yliving.com ...

Independent publisher Counter-Print has released Optic, a new book on the history of optical illusions in graphic design and how this craft has developed over the years. The inception of Op Art came ...

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 ...