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Moleskine Detour: Inside Beloved Creative Icons’ Notebooks
Moleskine Detour: Inside Beloved Creative Icons’ Notebooks

Celebrating the iconic brand though the personal notebooks of creative icons.

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Stendhal on the Seven Stages of Romance and Why We Fall Out of Love: Timeless Wisdom from 1822
Stendhal on the Seven Stages of Romance and Why We Fall Out of Love: Timeless Wisdom from 1822

“To love is to enjoy seeing, touching, and sensing with all the senses, as closely as possible, a lovable object which loves in return.”

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Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Never-Before-Seen Journals and Sketches
Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Never-Before-Seen Journals and Sketches

Rare sketches, photographs, doodles, and other glimpses of the beloved Muppeteer’s mind and creative process.

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Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook
Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook

“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”

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A History of Reading
A History of Reading

“Writing freezes the moment. Reading is forever.”

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How To Sing: A 1902 Illustrated Guide from the Great German Opera Singer Lilli Lehmann
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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The Best Design Books of 2012
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 R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers
The R&D Lab of Creativity: Inside the Sketchbooks of Beloved Illustrators and Designers

A memory warehouse… a means of detachment… the perfect place to document daydreams.

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Philip Pullman Reimagines the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Philip Pullman Reimagines the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

“You have a positive duty to make the story your own. A fairy tale is not a text.”

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Rework: Beck and Others Remix the Music of Philip Glass for the Iconic Composer’s 75th Birthday
Rework: Beck and Others Remix the Music of Philip Glass for the Iconic Composer’s 75th Birthday

Half a century of music innovation, reimagined.

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