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Reads tagged with “design”

We Love You, Beatles: Vintage Children’s Illustration Circa 1971
We Love You, Beatles: Vintage Children’s Illustration Circa 1971

Can’t buy me love, but you can buy me this vintage treasure.

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Hands Are Amazing
Hands Are Amazing

From monkeys to Michelangelo, or what Margaret Mead has to do with combinatorial creativity.

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How to Get Unstuck in 30 Seconds
How to Get Unstuck in 30 Seconds

From squiggle to masterpiece in 30 seconds, or how to refill your annual bucket of creative mojo.

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Salvador Dalí Illustrates Alice in Wonderland, 1969
Salvador Dalí Illustrates Alice in Wonderland, 1969

What the Mad Hatter has to do with one of the most inspired collaborations in Western culture.

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The Holstee LifeCycle Film: Visual Poetry for Bike-Lovers and Creators
The Holstee LifeCycle Film: Visual Poetry for Bike-Lovers and Creators

“Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them.”

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The 11 Best Illustrated Children’s and Picture Books of 2011
The 11 Best Illustrated Children’s and Picture Books of 2011

From evil stepmothers to Edward Gorey, or what Richard Dawkins has to do with Hindu deities.

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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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Inside the Creative Process of Cut-Paper Storyteller Béatrice Coron
Inside the Creative Process of Cut-Paper Storyteller Béatrice Coron

Slicing the different layers we’re made of, or what an 18th-century French statesman has to do with the MTA.

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The Universal Traveler: A Vintage Guide to Creative Problem-Solving
The Universal Traveler: A Vintage Guide to Creative Problem-Solving

Navigating the “tourist traps” of creativity, or how to finally reconcile ideation and evaluation.

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Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon

How Milton Glaser subverted Steve Jobs, or what the Mona Lisa has to do with Einstein’s theory of relativity.

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