AIGA Eye on Design
AIGA Eye on Design is an editorial platform publishing stories that examine what it means to be a designer today.

Editors' Picks

A Guide to Self-isolation for Creatives
A growing and evolving resource for education, connection, money-making, and entertainment during the crisis. Illustration by Sara Andreasson

A Growing List of Resources for the Movement for Black Lives
Resources, donation links, reading recommendations and Black designers to support. Illustration by Sophia Yeshi

What Every Designer Needs to Know About Copyright Law
Unfortunately it's more than you think...

Roberta Williams Is the World’s First Graphic Computer Game Designer, but She’s Famous for All the Wrong Reasons
“Video game history doesn’t know how to make sense of her except to single her out.”

The Hidden History of Magic Eye, the Optical Illusion That Briefly Took Over the World
How a 1990s op-art phenomenon went from a tech-spec magazine to households everywhere.

For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps
They’ve eluded one of the most rigorous map-making institutions in the world to do so.

Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But At What Cost?
In always pushing less is more, we risk losing the diversity of aesthetic experience.
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