Reads tagged with “design”

Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls: Mischievous Vintage Illustrated Verses by Shel Silverstein, A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, and Ted Hughes

“Moral: Never stew your sister.”

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How China’s First Emperor Pioneered Design Thinking and Revolutionized the Branding of Legacy

How to standardize, enforce accountability, and employ design thinking in coining your image and legacy.

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Illustrators and Visual Storytellers Map the World

“Cartography can be an incredible form of escapism, as maps act as proxies for experiences.”

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A Pictorial History of the London Tube and Its Graphic Legacy

Visual mementos celebrating 150 years since the birth of the world’s first underground railway system.

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Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich on Art vs. Design and the Joy of Losing Yourself in Purposeful Work

“Art pushes the limit of human experience and language for its own sake, while Design might do this but only to humanize and integrate people’s lives in the context of an economy.”

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A Design History of Childhood

“Children help us to mediate between the ideal and the real.”

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Cats vs. Dogs: A Poem by T. S. Eliot, with Stunning Vintage Illustrations by Dame Eileen Mayo

“You now have learned enough to see / That Cats are much like you and me / And other people whom we find / Possessed of various types of mind.”

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How To Take a Bath: And Other Vintage Visual Guides from the Early 1900s

Steaming like it’s 1899.

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10½ Favorite Reads from TED Bookstore 2013

A full-brain reading list of cross-disciplinary stimulation.

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Anaïs Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by Debbie Millman

“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”

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Reads tagged with “design”

“Moral: Never stew your sister.”

How to standardize, enforce accountability, and employ design thinking in coining your image and legacy.

“Cartography can be an incredible form of escapism, as maps act as proxies for experiences.”

Visual mementos celebrating 150 years since the birth of the world’s first underground railway system.

“Art pushes the limit of human experience and language for its own sake, while Design might do this but only to humanize and integrate people’s lives in the context of an economy.”

“Children help us to mediate between the ideal and the real.”

“You now have learned enough to see / That Cats are much like you and me / And other people whom we find / Possessed of various types of mind.”

Steaming like it’s 1899.

A full-brain reading list of cross-disciplinary stimulation.

“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”

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