From children's toys to chunks of the Berlin Wall, this collection is showing that Cold War design is more than propaganda
Barbie gets a sustainable makeover with a home featuring solar panels, bamboo floors, and an eco-friendly toilet
Scott Flora on interior design, what colors look good indoors, and how to blend affordable art and high style
Visibility, invisibility, and what the spirit of letters has to do with the meaning of text
Stephan Van Dam's 3D maps are already in the MoMA—and his new app boldly goes where no mapmaker has gone before
The Israeli illustrator's images of everyone from Einstein and Stalin to Bill Murray crackle with humor, smarts, and wit
A design book unites everything from graphic design to packaging to explore the individual hues that color our everyday lives
3-D letterforms, a classic essay on the cultural role of typography, and a book about fonts that look like handwriting are just a few of these highlights
Before his Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's Soup prints, the pop art legend illustrated books—and they're still available and inexpensive
FORM magazine—an essential read for anyone who cares about product or graphic design—shows why print design publications are still better than websites
Nathan Yau's new book, Visualize This, shows how to use design to make sense of an information-flooded world
Elementary-school geometry meets the high style of designers such as Saul Bass in this brief but brilliant video by Jurjen Versteeg
Meat is only the beginning for an artist who joyfully reimagines the innards of artichokes, ice cream cones, and even ghosts
A film, now out on DVD, shows how Milton Glaser, one of the most famous living graphic designers, has "informed and delighted"
Our Q & A with an artist who, in a scene dominated by the U.S. and Japan, represents a different region—and a different style
It might be the most important part of any restaurant: the entrance. A guide to nine that show what the art form can be.
A tribute to the man whose "music for the eyes" transformed the look of records—and every tape and CD that followed
How the former art director of SPY turned the Yiddish magazine Pakn Treger into an inspiring mix of Jewish history and modern design
Dan Haga and Dan Ayers's Urban Atrophy uses photographs to document the architecture of abandonment
Scripts: Elegant Lettering From Design's Golden Age is a stunning, sentimental book on fonts that resemble handwriting