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The Black Book of Colors: A Lyrical Empathy Tool for the Sighted to See the World Like the Blind Do
The Black Book of Colors: A Lyrical Empathy Tool for the Sighted to See the World Like the Blind Do

A beautiful invitation to inhabit a different mode of sensorial reality.

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Color as Data: Visualizing Color Composition
Color as Data: Visualizing Color Composition

Abstracting glossy magazines, or what pie charts have to do with the Mona Lisa.

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Color and the Brain: Beau Lotto’s Optical Illusions
Color and the Brain: Beau Lotto’s Optical Illusions

What tsunamis have to do with online banking, public transit and better street cred for geeks.

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Data Visualization: The Colors of Democracy
Data Visualization: The Colors of Democracy

What dots and colors have to do with the war on political corruption.

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How to Tell Love from Desire: José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing
How to Tell Love from Desire: José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing

“Loving is perennial vivification… a centrifugal act of the soul in constant flux that goes toward the object and envelops it in warm corroboration, uniting us with it and positively affirming its being.”

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Michele Banks’ Biological Watercolors
Michele Banks’ Biological Watercolors

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The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color
The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color

How political correctness resulted in enforcing a universal, cross-cultural gender stereotype.

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Fun For Good: The Indie Rock Coloring Book
Fun For Good: The Indie Rock Coloring Book

Staying outside the lines, or what Rilo Kiley’s latest haircuts have to do with charity.

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The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain
The Paradise Notebooks: A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

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