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The Art of Rube Goldberg

“An artist who followed the logic of the machine to its comic climax.”

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Fritz Kahn: The Little-Known Godfather of Infographics

How a German gynecologist transformed science into visual poetry and laid the foundations of modern information graphics.

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How to Be an Educated Consumer of Infographics: David Byrne on the Art-Science of Visual Storytelling

Cultivating the ability to experience the “geeky rapture” of metaphorical thinking and pattern recognition.

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Art, Science, and Butterfly Metamorphosis: How a 17th-Century Woman Laid the Foundations of Modern Entomology

Remarkable drawings that shaped the course of science and radically defied gender norms.

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Ray Bradbury on Writing, Emotion vs. Intelligence, and the Core of Creativity

“You can only go with loves in this life.”

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Mondrian Meets Euclid: An Eccentric Victorian Mathematician’s Masterwork of Art and Science

Math in primary colors and graphic design before there was graphic design.

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Hans Christian Andersen’s Revolution of Storytelling and the Best Illustrations from 150 Years of His Beloved Fairy Tales

“Andersen had the ability to articulate desires petty and profound and make them into transcendent tales.”

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Anaïs Nin on Writing, the Future of the Novel, and How Keeping a Diary Enhances Creativity: Wisdom from a Rare 1947 Chapbook

“It is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.”

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Gorgeous Vintage Illustrations for Aesop’s Fables by Alice and Martin Provensen

Timeless visual exorcism of our greatest moral shortcomings, bridging antiquity and today.

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The Comic Book Universe, Distilled in Infographics

What a physical history of saying “Good Grief” has to do with superhero undergarments and the pizza toppings of the Ninja Turtles.

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Search results for “taschen”

“An artist who followed the logic of the machine to its comic climax.”

How a German gynecologist transformed science into visual poetry and laid the foundations of modern information graphics.

Cultivating the ability to experience the “geeky rapture” of metaphorical thinking and pattern recognition.

Remarkable drawings that shaped the course of science and radically defied gender norms.

“You can only go with loves in this life.”

Math in primary colors and graphic design before there was graphic design.

“Andersen had the ability to articulate desires petty and profound and make them into transcendent tales.”

“It is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.”

Timeless visual exorcism of our greatest moral shortcomings, bridging antiquity and today.

What a physical history of saying “Good Grief” has to do with superhero undergarments and the pizza toppings of the Ninja Turtles.

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