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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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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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Cold War Wonderland: Photographing the East/West Divide
Cold War Wonderland: Photographing the East/West Divide

What Soviet babushkas have to do with the fall of the Roman Empire and the Egyptian Revolution.

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Egypt in the Early 1900s: Rare Vintage Lantern Slides
Egypt in the Early 1900s: Rare Vintage Lantern Slides

What sunset on the Nile has to do with landmark innovation in photographic imaging.

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Vintage Ballet: Rare Photos of Dancers from the 1930s-1950s
Vintage Ballet: Rare Photos of Dancers from the 1930s-1950s

Drama, glamor and elegance converge in amazing archival images of ballet dancers from the early 20th century.

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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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Frank Sinatra: A Rare Documentary from 1965
Frank Sinatra: A Rare Documentary from 1965

What the evolution of popular music has to do with turbulent love and fostering the art of patience.

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Past Objects: Excavated Curiosities from New York’s Forgotten Past
Past Objects: Excavated Curiosities from New York’s Forgotten Past

What landfills have to do with ivory craftsmanship and existential questions of impermanence.

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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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How Shakespeare Changed Everything
How Shakespeare Changed Everything

What Central Park wildlife has to do with Freud and Abe Lincoln’s assassination.

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