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Cyclepedia: An Homage to the Beauty of the Bicycle
Cyclepedia: An Homage to the Beauty of the Bicycle

A brief visual history of innovation in bicycle design.

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The Unwilling Tourist: Vintage Czech Illustration Captures the Life of the Refugee
The Unwilling Tourist: Vintage Czech Illustration Captures the Life of the Refugee

What the dawn of the Czech avant-garde has to do with UN statistics and outsmarting Hitler.

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Made in Russia: Vintage Curiosities of Soviet Design
Made in Russia: Vintage Curiosities of Soviet Design

What the 1980 Olympics have to do with IKEA and medieval helmets for modern role-playing games.

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Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words
Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words

From high school dropout to design legend, or what the Oxford English Dictionary has to do with iconic logos.

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Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns for the Information Age
Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns for the Information Age

What the basis of Buddhism has to do with Jack Kerouac, poverty in Italy and Alice in Wonderland.

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Wonderstruck: Remarkable New Work from Brian Selznick
Wonderstruck: Remarkable New Work from Brian Selznick

What a 50-year fold in the spacetime continuum of New York has to do with three pounds of love and Scorsese.

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Illustrated Flowcharts to Find Answers to Life’s Big Questions
Illustrated Flowcharts to Find Answers to Life’s Big Questions

Flowcharting your way to happiness, or why you should be looking for people who intimidate you.

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Spitting in the Face of Creativity?
Spitting in the Face of Creativity?

Lessons in plagiarism from Polish magazine Przekrój.

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Al Jaffee’s Iconic MAD Fold-Ins: The Definitive Collection, 1964-2010
Al Jaffee’s Iconic MAD Fold-Ins: The Definitive Collection, 1964-2010

Half a century of clever visual satire from pop culture to politics, or what Warhol had to do with Whitewater.

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Major Movements in Philosophy as Minimalist Geometric Graphics
Major Movements in Philosophy as Minimalist Geometric Graphics

From relativism to absolutism, or what the geometry of knowledge has to do with negative space.

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