The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “design”

Twenty Ways to Matter
Twenty Ways to Matter

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Favorite Books of 2022
Favorite Books of 2022

From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.

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Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work
Aloneness, Belonging, and the Paradox of Vulnerability, in Love and Creative Work

Wisdom on the elementary particles of our shared humanity from Alain de Botton, Brené Brown, Elizabeth Alexander, and other visionaries across the spectrum of the creative life.

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Gorgeous Vintage Japanese Illustrations of Animals and Scientific Phenomena
Gorgeous Vintage Japanese Illustrations of Animals and Scientific Phenomena

A vibrant minimalist celebration of nature, from the scale of cells and atoms to the scale of elephants and the Moon.

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Visionary Maps of Time, Space, and Thought by America’s First Female Cartographer and Information Visualization Designer
Visionary Maps of Time, Space, and Thought by America’s First Female Cartographer and Information Visualization Designer

Revolutions in design and education technology, underpinned by the conviction that women “are an essential part of the body politic, whose corruption or improvement must affect the whole.”

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