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Popular Lies About Graphic Design

Debunking the misconceptions, half-truths, and dangerous mythology of creativity.

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The Best History Books of 2012

From Mark Twain’s diary to the visual history of evolution, by way of Vonnegut, Sontag, and Klimt.

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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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The Origins of Sex: How the First Sexual Revolution Shaped Modern Society

Anatomy of the osmotic balance between public and private, with a side of morality and law.

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5½ Timeless Commencement Speeches to Teach You to Define Your Own Success

The great and terrible truth of clichés, why success is a dangerous bedfellow, and how disappointment paves the way for originality.

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This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works

“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.”

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How To Sing: A 1902 Illustrated Guide from the Great German Opera Singer Lilli Lehmann

“It is the artist’s task, through offering his best and most carefully prepared achievements, to educate the public, to ennoble it.”

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Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence.

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The Art of Chance-Opportunism in Creativity and Scientific Discovery

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

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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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Search results for “critical thinking”

Debunking the misconceptions, half-truths, and dangerous mythology of creativity.

From Mark Twain’s diary to the visual history of evolution, by way of Vonnegut, Sontag, and Klimt.

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

Anatomy of the osmotic balance between public and private, with a side of morality and law.

The great and terrible truth of clichés, why success is a dangerous bedfellow, and how disappointment paves the way for originality.

“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.”

“It is the artist’s task, through offering his best and most carefully prepared achievements, to educate the public, to ennoble it.”

On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence.

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”

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

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