Nathalie Fallaha runs the Vit-e design studio and is long-term professor of graphic design at the Lebanese American University (LAU). This article from novum looks at how she views the agitated soul of her homeland with love and perspicuity, mirroring its diversity in her work.

Through a series of video interviews and a written interview, Alex Goh of TAXI: The Global Creative Network brings us into the world of Milton Glaser, one of the most prolific graphic designers around today.

Bucking the rule that a typeface should be drawn in black and white, Thomas L'Excellent analyses what's behind designing alphabets in colours. A prerequisite in composition, colour is here shown to have structuring ability besides its role in decoration.

This second part of a two-part series written by DK Holland for Communication Arts magazine discusses the varying approaches and opinions surrounding design ethics, from work for hire to unsustainable design.

21 years after a working paper entitled Graphic Design for Development was submitted by board members of Icograda to UNESCO, this study by Sali Sasaki shows how graphic designers have become more sensitive to world issues and how the professional world of design tries to encourage and promote new social design practices.

This first part of a two-part series written by DK Holland for Communication Arts magazine discusses the varying approaches and opinions surrounding spec work the its related legal and ethical issues.

Being able to understand safety messages and public information despite language barriers or illiteracy is possible thanks to internationally harmonised graphical symbols developed by the International Organization for Standardization.

In this article from segdDESIGN, Pat Matson Knapp describes how a new signage and wayfinding program for the National Mall in Washington DC will inform and guide visitors, but while treading lightly.

Respected author, academic and design thinker, Victor Margolin chats with Russell Kennedy, Icograda President about future directions in design and his anxiously awaited book on the history of design.

Farshid Mesghali looks at the various factors present in the growth and evolution of graphic design in Iran and how a refreshed approach to the profession would help a new design generation truly tap in to the richness of this country.