We tend to think of physical posters as ephemeral objects that get pasted up and discarded a few weeks or months after their usefulness. They are not typically the type of thing that would last beyond ...

Jens Müller, author of History of Graphic Design. Vol. 1, 1890–1959, offers up a selection of hidden gems in his remarkable new book. This guy started it all. Jules Chéret was not only a brilliant ...

The origins of type and typography -- From Gutenberg to Bodoni -- 1. The nineteenth century: an expanding field. The Industrial Revolution and the rise of urban mass culture : New technologies ; ...

Last week, NPR’s "All Things Considered" covered an unusual topic: Scientific conference posters. For the first time in decades, scientists are rethinking the traditional design of the posters they ...