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Follow For Now: A Time-Capsule of Contemporary Thought
Follow For Now: A Time-Capsule of Contemporary Thought

What the changing guard of design has to do with evolutionary theories of network dynamics.

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Live Now: Existential Affirmation by Design
Live Now: Existential Affirmation by Design

Publishing’s most positive tear sheets, or how a placemat can change your whole outlook on the day.

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<em>LE GUN 1,2,3</em>: Bleeding-Edge Illustration from Around the Globe
LE GUN 1,2,3: Bleeding-Edge Illustration from Around the Globe

What flying to Paris has to do with creative entrepreneurship and global provocations.

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Cultural Connectives: Understanding Arab Culture Through Typography
Cultural Connectives: Understanding Arab Culture Through Typography

What typography has to do with cross-cultural understanding and linguistic minimalism.

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Famous Creators on the Fear of Failure
Famous Creators on the Fear of Failure

Embracing what is, or how to fail like the world’s most successful creatives.

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<em>My Visual Diary</em>: A Month-in-the-Life in Stop-Motion
My Visual Diary: A Month-in-the-Life in Stop-Motion

What people-watching and the love of cereal have to do with fostering visual literacy.

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Happy Birthday, Dieter Rams: Revisiting Less & More
Happy Birthday, Dieter Rams: Revisiting Less & More

What your favorite coffeemaker has to do with the cultural value of the unspectacular.

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Partitura: Mesmerizing Music Visualization Software
Partitura: Mesmerizing Music Visualization Software

What neurological phenomena have to do with software and the future of live performance experiences.

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From Nature to NASA: The Fascinating Story of Velcro, a Pioneering Masterpiece of Biomimicry
From Nature to NASA: The Fascinating Story of Velcro, a Pioneering Masterpiece of Biomimicry

Innovation that sticks, or how to turn nature’s aggravations into universal usefulness.

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New Dawn, New Day: Introducing the New Brain Pickings
New Dawn, New Day: Introducing the New Brain Pickings

Today is a big day here, for today is the day that Brain Pickings sheds a skin that never quite fit and is reborn into what it always aimed to be, visually and editorially.

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