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Type designer Kia Tasbihgou on how “knowing cool designers and nice fonts isn’t enough”
Identity
2025
“Ego is the number one attribute that hinders brilliant work”
Project
2018
Designer and art director Raquel Quevedo on the importance of leaving room for fantasy and experiments
Project
2024
What sort of designer should I be?
Project
2017
Twin brothers V/A/B on their “difficultly simple” approach to design
Identity
2014
Opinion: A few thoughts on branding from the late, great Wally Olins
Project
2018
Max Siedentopf explains why creative perfection is a dead end
Project
2018
Graphic designer Bryan Rivera references mistakes and imperfections in his portfolio
Publication
2019
Arabic and Latin typography don’t have to mimic each other to be harmonious says Montasser Drissi
Project
2025
“We don’t need to rely on AI to break up the monotony”
Project
2019
“I don’t bother being trendy”: Hugo Hoppmann on his multifarious design approach
Project
2020
Somnath Bhatt on intuition, labour, and relinquishing individuality
Project
2017
Jamming the Stupid Machine: Disegno goes behind the scenes of Hella Jongerius' show, Beyond the New
Publication
2019
Seb Agresti picks the books that taught him more than art school ever did
Project
2018
For Sulki and Min, creative freedom is overrated and they believe in constraints