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Drawn In: A Peek Inside Favorite Artists’ Private Sketchbooks
Drawn In: A Peek Inside Favorite Artists’ Private Sketchbooks

What the myth of the muse has to do with the discipline of refinement, visual poetry and Shel Silverstein.

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Drawing Inspiration: An Animated Film about Routine & Serendipity
Drawing Inspiration: An Animated Film about Routine & Serendipity

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All the Buildings in New York, Illustrated
All the Buildings in New York, Illustrated

What deli signage typography has to do with the connectedness of the universe.

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Creative Cartography: 7 Magnificent Books on Maps
Creative Cartography: 7 Magnificent Books on Maps

From tattoos to Thomas More’s Utopia, or what Moby Dick has to do with the nature of time.

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Market Maketh Man: Distortions of Democracy
Market Maketh Man: Distortions of Democracy

Equilibrium, apathy and what John Stuart Mill has to do with medical marijuana.

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Drawing Nature: Learning to See the World by Learning to Draw It
Drawing Nature: Learning to See the World by Learning to Draw It

From pine needles to zen in 192 pages.

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7 Must-Read Books on the Future of Information and the Internet
7 Must-Read Books on the Future of Information and the Internet

From retrofuturist media prophecies to the cognitive consequences of mobile-everything.

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Stephen Biesty’s Engineering Illustrations: Art Meets Science
Stephen Biesty’s Engineering Illustrations: Art Meets Science

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Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks
Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks

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The Johnny Cash Project: Global Collaborative Storytelling
The Johnny Cash Project: Global Collaborative Storytelling

Frames, doodles, and how to weave a digital quilt out of legendary music and cultural history.

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