Reads tagged with “design”
This Book Is a Planetarium: A Pop-Up Masterpiece Translating the Laws of Physics into Playful and Poetic Tangibility
From light to time, magical hands-on demonstrations making concretely comprehensible the abstract forces and phenomena we experience but cannot ordinarily touch.
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900
A trailblazing effort “to give, in as systematic and compact a form as possible, the history and present condition of a large group of human beings.”
The Creative Architect: Inside Psychology’s Most Ambitious and Influential Study of What Makes a Creative Person
“The creative person has the courage to experience opposites of his nature and to attempt some reconciliation of them in an individuated expression of himself.”
In the Company of Women: Wisdom and Advice on the Creative Life from Beloved Women Artists, Makers, and Entrepreneurs
Neko Case, Nikki Giovani, Tavi Gevinson, Maira Kalman, Debbie Millman, Carrie Brownstein, and more.
Nonstop Metropolis: An Atlas of Maps Reclaiming New York’s Untold Stories and Unseen Populations
“Each of us is an atlas of sorts, already knowing how to navigate some portion of the world, containing innumerable versions of place as experience and desire and fear, as route and landmark and memory.”
Meet Cipe Pineles: The Remarkable Life and Illustrated Recipes of the Forgotten Pioneer Who Blazed the Way for Women in Design and Publishing
A labor of love four years in the making, celebrating a trailblazing woman who shattered multiple glass ceilings.
Literary Constellations: Astronomy-Inspired Visualizations of the Opening Sentences of Beloved Books
From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to The Time Machine, data art meets literature.
You Are Here: Creative Cartography Mapping the Soul of New York
“Diversity fills the city with cartographic potential… New York belongs to everyone, and maps prove it.”
Goethe’s Graphically Daring Diagrams of Color Perception
How a misguided refutation of Newton inspired artists and philosophers with a new visual aesthetic.
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