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10 Beautiful Typographic Covers of Non-Typography Books

What 12 million human emotions have to do with iconic industrial design and the science of memes.

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As Little Design as Possible: The Work of Dieter Rams

What vintage radio appliances have to do with Apple and our civilization’s responsibility.

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La Figa: Visions of Food and Form

Humanity’s greatest appetites together at last, or what the farmer’s market has to do with the boudoir.

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The Cloud Collector’s Handbook: Cloudy Images to Clear the Mind

Why cirrus, cumulus, and stratus are only the tiny tip of a floating iceberg. Or wait, I think I see a dinosaur!

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How Ralph Waldo Emerson Shaped the American Ideal

Philosophy, entrepreneurship, and what classic spiritual movements have to do with modern geeks.

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Dripped: French Animated Homage to Jackson Pollock

Channeling the maddening hunger for art, or what 2010 Paris has to do with 1950s New York.

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Rare Book Feast: Celebrating the Timeless Character of Books

What vintage design and half a million dollars has to do with Earth’s future.

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Incognito: David Eagleman Unravels the Secret Lives of the Brain

What seeing rainbows has to do with artificial intelligence and the biology of infidelity.

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Cold War Wonderland: Photographing the East/West Divide

What Soviet babushkas have to do with the fall of the Roman Empire and the Egyptian Revolution.

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Egypt in the Early 1900s: Rare Vintage Lantern Slides

What sunset on the Nile has to do with landmark innovation in photographic imaging.

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Search results for “beauty”

What 12 million human emotions have to do with iconic industrial design and the science of memes.

What vintage radio appliances have to do with Apple and our civilization’s responsibility.

Humanity’s greatest appetites together at last, or what the farmer’s market has to do with the boudoir.

Why cirrus, cumulus, and stratus are only the tiny tip of a floating iceberg. Or wait, I think I see a dinosaur!

Philosophy, entrepreneurship, and what classic spiritual movements have to do with modern geeks.

Channeling the maddening hunger for art, or what 2010 Paris has to do with 1950s New York.

What vintage design and half a million dollars has to do with Earth’s future.

What seeing rainbows has to do with artificial intelligence and the biology of infidelity.

What Soviet babushkas have to do with the fall of the Roman Empire and the Egyptian Revolution.

What sunset on the Nile has to do with landmark innovation in photographic imaging.

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