Text and Subtext

Adapted from a presentation given in Taichung (October 2017)

Graphic design is communication, it’s cultural and commercial wayfinding. It’s economic and transactional: business cards, storefronts, concert posters, book jackets…

On Calling Cards

A Light Card Can Do a Lot of Heavy Lifting

One of design’s most intractable problems is also one of its longest-running staples: the business card. Some call for its demise; others throw up their hands in confusion at its weed-like persistence…

TABLED

A Year in the Life of the Traffic Tide Dinner Series

Samarskaya for Product Chatters

A Conversation on “Going Grayscale” (Winter 2017)

Faruk Ateş: Hi Ksenya! For the readers, can you tell us briefly a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Ksenya Samarskaya: Start with…

Epitaph.RIP

Making a Website to Give Death New Life

Beginning of The End

Accidentally apt one-liners. Famous last words. The in-the-moment asides that end with “‥that ought to be on my tombstone.” We all have moments where we…

Samarskaya for Ladies, Wine & Design

Originally published by Ladies, Wine & Design (Summer 2017)

Samarskaya for Eye on Design

New Font Wyeth Adapts the Charm of Old Subway Signage for Modern Uses

Samarskaya for Print Magazine

Ksenya Samarskaya: Subtlety, Contradictions & Women in Type Design by…