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American Look: A Technicolor Homage to Mid-Century Design
American Look: A Technicolor Homage to Mid-Century Design

Can you identify these 49 classic pieces of mid-century design?

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Christoph Niemann on Happiness, Work and Creativity
Christoph Niemann on Happiness, Work and Creativity

How yoga is killing kerning, or what chasing butterflies has to do with divine inspiration.

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The Modernist: Graphic Design’s Mid-Century Muse
The Modernist: Graphic Design’s Mid-Century Muse

Celebrating the hot-and-heavy love affair between classical modern and contemporary graphics.

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E. chromi: Designer Bacteria for Color-Coded Disease Detection
E. chromi: Designer Bacteria for Color-Coded Disease Detection

What the future of personalized medicine has to do with the cross-pollination of design and engineering.

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Summer Reading List: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine
Summer Reading List: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine

The history and future of the Internet, algorithms vs. curators, reinventing education, and how to live with optimism.

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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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Bibliographic: The 100 Best Design Books of the Past 100 Years
Bibliographic: The 100 Best Design Books of the Past 100 Years

What James Bond title sequences have to do with the secret of happiness and the evolution of public signage.

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Designing Minds: Uncovered Video Profiles of Prominent Designers
Designing Minds: Uncovered Video Profiles of Prominent Designers

Peeking inside creative crania, or what giant bananas have to do with the difference between design and art.

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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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Radioactive: Marie Curie’s Radical and Revolutionary Life, in Lyrical Cyanotype Illustrations
Radioactive: Marie Curie’s Radical and Revolutionary Life, in Lyrical Cyanotype Illustrations

What the periodic table has to do with obscure photographic techniques and Italian erotic séances.

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