Reads tagged with “culture”

Five Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process

From Monet to Tiger Woods, or why creating rituals and breaking routines don’t have to be conflicting notions.

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Portraits of Workspaces

What salt-water taffies have to do with hard hats, mannequins and kindergarten playrooms.

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This Must Be The Place: Poetic Short Films Explore ‘Home’

What 19th-century farming has to do with solar panels and the creative losses of digital photography.

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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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Everything Sings: Countercultural Cartography of the Invisible Life of a Neighborhood

What Ira Glass has to do with atlas antagonism, or what plotting carved pumpkins reveals about place.

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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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A Brief Visual History of Robots in a Matrix of Creepiness & Intelligence

What Louis XV has to do with H.G. Wells and the hazards of mechanical animation.

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Asylum: Inside the Haunting World of 19th-Century Mental Hospitals

What straitjackets have to do with Eames chairs and the mutations of policy ideals.

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New Philanthropy: End Malaria and Boost Your Own Creative Process

Altruism by way of self-improvement, or what optimizing your workflow has to do with saving children.

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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Possibly His Last

From Ben Franklin to Qadafi, or what the Egyptian Revolution has to do with Harry Potter.

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Reads tagged with “culture”

From Monet to Tiger Woods, or why creating rituals and breaking routines don’t have to be conflicting notions.

What salt-water taffies have to do with hard hats, mannequins and kindergarten playrooms.

What 19th-century farming has to do with solar panels and the creative losses of digital photography.

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

What Ira Glass has to do with atlas antagonism, or what plotting carved pumpkins reveals about place.

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

What Louis XV has to do with H.G. Wells and the hazards of mechanical animation.

What straitjackets have to do with Eames chairs and the mutations of policy ideals.

Altruism by way of self-improvement, or what optimizing your workflow has to do with saving children.

From Ben Franklin to Qadafi, or what the Egyptian Revolution has to do with Harry Potter.

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