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Pure Process: Picking the Creative Brain

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Art of The Cover: Book Cover Design Inspiration

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The Mother of All Music Visualization

What global warming has to do with the formative role of music in 20th-century culture.

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Writing Without Words: Visualizing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”

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Hungry Planet: How The World Eats, or Doesn’t

What $376.45 and $1.23 have in common, or why we should be embarrassed to even worry about “the recession.”

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Famous Designers on Design: 5 Beautiful Book Covers

What the hate of Helvetica has to do with Nine Inch Nails and a three-legged lemon juicer.

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Context vs. Controversy

You’re a clichè, lots of skin, stuff that killed people, stuff that will kill you, policing the police, what Hitler is finding painfully unfunny, which European is holding suburban America hostage, how to get $80,782 from people who like you, and why the paparazzi are finally out of business.

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Reads tagged with “books”

Happiness, ADD, and why multitasking doesn’t work but denial might.

What coffee, ironing and crying newborns have to do with the birth of an idea.

Shepard Fairey on George Orwell, where we live, 8 decades of iconic cover designs, and what Banksy and a tranny have in common. Oh my!

What global warming has to do with the formative role of music in 20th-century culture.

Literature as a canvas, a book as a living organism, and rhythm as a texture.

What $376.45 and $1.23 have in common, or why we should be embarrassed to even worry about “the recession.”

What the hate of Helvetica has to do with Nine Inch Nails and a three-legged lemon juicer.

You’re a clichè, lots of skin, stuff that killed people, stuff that will kill you, policing the police, what Hitler is finding painfully unfunny, which European is holding suburban America hostage, how to get $80,782 from people who like you, and why the paparazzi are finally out of business.

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