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27 NOVEMBER, 2012

The Best Design Books of 2012

From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of famous logos.

01 MAY, 2012

Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World’s Best Information Designers

What Frank Zappa’s life has to do with the afterlife of gadgets, whale songs, and the black market for body parts.

16 JUNE, 2011

10 Beautiful Typographic Covers of Non-Typography Books

What 12 million human emotions have to do with iconic industrial design and the science of memes.

27 JANUARY, 2011

MoMA’s Paola Antonelli on Humanized Technology

Paola Antonelli, brilliant as ever, on where technology is going and how it humanizes the objects we interact with day-to-day.