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Stone Is Not Cold: Miroslav Šašek’s Playful Vintage Children’s Illustrations of Classical Sculpture
Stone Is Not Cold: Miroslav Šašek’s Playful Vintage Children’s Illustrations of Classical Sculpture

Medusa goes to the hairdresser, or what Cicero has to do with press conferences.

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Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion
Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Animated in Stop-Motion

182% of brilliance, three weeks in the making.

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Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcards from the Early 1900s
Vintage Valentine’s Day Postcards from the Early 1900s

“If she be not fair for me what care I how fair she be.”

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How McLuhan, Agel, and Fiore Created a New Visual Vernacular for the Information Age
How McLuhan, Agel, and Fiore Created a New Visual Vernacular for the Information Age

The rise of the experimental paperback and how ‘typophotography’ paved the information superhighway.

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Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline

A chronology of one of our most inescapable metaphors, or what Macbeth has to do with Galileo.

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David Brooks on the Dangerous Division Between Reason and Emotion, Animated
David Brooks on the Dangerous Division Between Reason and Emotion, Animated

The false division of the self, or what’s wrong with using physics to assess human behavior.

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Designer Kelli Anderson on Disruptive Wonder and the Hidden Talents of Everyday Things
Designer Kelli Anderson on Disruptive Wonder and the Hidden Talents of Everyday Things

Exploring the intersection of irreverence and whimsy, or how to expand what we demand from reality.

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The Bomb and the General: Umberto Eco’s Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About Peace and Environmental Wakefulness
The Bomb and the General: Umberto Eco’s Vintage Semiotic Children’s Book About Peace and Environmental Wakefulness

How symbols become symbols, or what keeping atoms in harmony has to do with language acquisition.

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Paul Rand on The Role of the Imagination
Paul Rand on The Role of the Imagination

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Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation
Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation

On the design as journalism and how to navigate the spectrum between art and information.

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