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.

Web lessons from 2011, the Protester, buzzwords to avoid, HP’s new logo, pop stars’ personalities in percentages, Design Envy picks from Diana Hong, interviews galore, censoring the internet and extreme long-term planning—these are our stories of the week.

What to do with a box full of beer bottle caps?

AIGA executive director Ric Grefé comments on recent conversations about AIGA’s role and the criteria for its 2012 “Justified” competition, inviting members to join the discussion, share ideas and make recommendations.

Design’s potential to rescue fast food, what makes a site memorable, women who write well about design, the post-digital world (will everyone have a Little Printer?), Design Envy picks from JaegerSloan, how digital boosts magazines, libraries as incubators for the arts, why Instagram is so popular and saying goodbye to revolutionary newspaper designer Louis Silverstein—these are our stories of the week.