WE AND THE COLOR

My friend Jonas waited eight months for his Fujifilm X100VI to arrive. He ordered it in early 2025, and Fujifilm actually shipped it in the spring of 2026. By the time the box landed on his doorstep, he had read every spec sheet twice and was half convinced the whole camera was a myth someon...

I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way, but I find that many script fonts often look very similar after you’ve scrolled past fifty of them on Creative Market. Loopy, vaguely romantic, and forgettable by the time you close the tab. So when I put the One Moment font by AnMark through a full week of actual project work, I expected the usual. But I...

My copy of The Graphic Design Bible has a coffee ring on page 214. It sits right on top of the Swiss grid systems spread. That feels almost too fitting for a book about structure and order. I didn’t skim this one for a quick opinion piece. I read every chapter, cover to cover, over about three weeks. Sticky tabs multiplied by the day, like they were reproducing on their o...

I opened the same creative brief presentation template in InDesign, Canva, Google Slides, Keynote, PowerPoint, and Affinity Publisher over the course of one week. And you know what? Usually, most templates...

I’ve specified Gotham on more projects than I can honestly count. Business cards, magazine layouts, a handful of branding decks that never made it past round two. So when Hoefler & Co. and Monotype announced Gotham Variable to mark the typeface’s 25th anniversary, I didn’t just skim the press release and move on. I installed the font, dropped it into real layouts, and...