Laurie Haycock and Scott Makela

The distinguished AIGA Medal is awarded to individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements in the field of design.

Emigre may not be as typographically experimental or visually provocative as it was in the '90s but VanderLans still pushes designers' buttons.

Is individual achievement a thing of the past? Lupton reports that working in teams is the next big thing, and the last big thing too.

Ed Fella (2007 AIGA Medalist) is an artist, educator and iconoclastic designer who dared to reshape contemporary typography and graphic design, largely by making visible the postmodern concept of deconstruction.

In-house designers are at risk of being just different enough to be misunderstood, undervalued and marginalized by both the business and design communities. Shame on us, though, if we let that happen, says veteran in-house design manager Andy Epstein, who outlines how to use outsider status as an advantage.

Protesting, making posters, writing, performing, using social media—through methods both new and old, design activists speak out against extreme immigration policies and economic inequality.

AIGA executive director Richard Grefé responds to “Art Works: A Poster Contest to Support American Jobs,” the Obama for America contest for posters promoting the Obama administration’s jobs program.

A not-so-brief rant about the future of interaction design, Design Envy picks from Stewart Smith, type and web designers as kindred spirits, the New Yorker's first-ever creative director and Adobe’s embrace of HTML5 are just some of our top stories this week.