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Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Eames: The Architect and the Painter

From fiberglass to James Franco, or what Ice Cube has to do with designing the American imagination.

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How Bananas Became a Global Commodity
How Bananas Became a Global Commodity

What the silent film era has to do with the architecture of atmospheric control.

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The Hare and the Tortoise: 1947 Dramatization with Live Animals
The Hare and the Tortoise: 1947 Dramatization with Live Animals

Slow and steady wins the race… or does it?

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25 Celebrated Saul Bass Title Sequences in 100 seconds
25 Celebrated Saul Bass Title Sequences in 100 seconds

Supercutting the visual legacy of the greatest graphic designer of all time.

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Destino: A Salvador Dalí + Walt Disney Collaboration Circa 1945
Destino: A Salvador Dalí + Walt Disney Collaboration Circa 1945

‘A magical display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time.’

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What is Generative Art? A 7-Minute PBS Micro-Documentary
What is Generative Art? A 7-Minute PBS Micro-Documentary

The rhetoric of data, or how to reconcile human and algorithm in the age of collective intelligence.

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Spiderman-Like Folk Hero Taunts the Nazis in 1945 Czech Animation
Spiderman-Like Folk Hero Taunts the Nazis in 1945 Czech Animation

What a mischievous chimney sweep has to do with tricking Hitler out of power.

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Oscar Wilde: The Rise and Fall of the 20th Century’s First Pop Celebrity
Oscar Wilde: The Rise and Fall of the 20th Century’s First Pop Celebrity

“He had a musician’s sense of a sentence.”

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Charade: Lessons in Creative Vision from a 1984 College Student
Charade: Lessons in Creative Vision from a 1984 College Student

What Goethe has to do with pioneering animation.

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Jerry’s Map: 2,000 Panels of Cartographic Imagination
Jerry’s Map: 2,000 Panels of Cartographic Imagination

Inside the mind of a musser, or what crude maps of the imagination have to do with the seven of diamonds.

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