We live in a curious age that is free in many ways. Power, voice, and visibility now move openly through social media, giving ideas a chance to travel far and fast. Then came AI, impressive in its ease and almost magical in its speed, polishing ideas effortlessly while sometimes softening the clues to how deep they really are. As a result, recognizing true talent at first glance has become a little less certain and a little more interesting. Graphic design sits right at the center of this...

[Indian edition] In today’s world, being a graphic designer means living at the intersection of creativity and technology. Design software is as essential to our craft as the pencil once was to the draughtsman. But a recent design study we conducted at an eighth-century archaeological site pushed us to look further back, to question not just the tools we use but the very origins of why we design at all. Long before Adobe, before the printing press, even before written language, humans were...

I have often found that in business, the word "strategy" gets thrown around a lot. It’s in pitch decks, leadership meetings, vision...