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The Best Design Books of 2012

From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.

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Why Writers Write: George Orwell on the Four Universal Motives for Creative Work

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

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Full Spectrum Reading List: 7 Great Books by TED 2012 Speakers

Anatomy of introversion, inside the brain’s optimism bias, and a blueprint for doomsday from PC Guy.

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Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change

How Aristotle went about cultivating virtue, or what Susan Sontag can teach us about self-improvement.

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Library of Dust: Reflections on Life Through the Unclaimed Dead

Psychiatry’s ghosts, the poetry of the metaphysical, or what tree bark has to do with chemical corrosion.

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Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing

Why it’s easier to prevent a crying spell than to stop one already underway.

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John Updike on the Ethics and Poetics of Criticism

“Submit to whatever spell, weak or strong, is being cast. Better to praise and share than blame and ban.”

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Design Legend David Carson Brings Marshall McLuhan’s “Probes” to Life

One of today’s greatest graphic designers reframes yesteryear’s greatest media prophet.

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On Loving Animals: A Visual Study of Affection and Its Extremes

What in-bred pugs and retired show cats have to do with the human capacity for selflessness and solipsism.

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The Homosexuals: A CBS “Documentary” from 1967

A vintage signpost for how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go.

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Search results for “trauma”

From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

Anatomy of introversion, inside the brain’s optimism bias, and a blueprint for doomsday from PC Guy.

How Aristotle went about cultivating virtue, or what Susan Sontag can teach us about self-improvement.

Psychiatry’s ghosts, the poetry of the metaphysical, or what tree bark has to do with chemical corrosion.

Why it’s easier to prevent a crying spell than to stop one already underway.

“Submit to whatever spell, weak or strong, is being cast. Better to praise and share than blame and ban.”

One of today’s greatest graphic designers reframes yesteryear’s greatest media prophet.

What in-bred pugs and retired show cats have to do with the human capacity for selflessness and solipsism.

A vintage signpost for how far we’ve come and how far we have yet to go.

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