Reads tagged with “history”
What Makes Iconic Design: Lessons from the Visual History of the London Underground Logo
Celebrating 150 years of elegant balance between tradition and innovation.
Samuel Johnson on Writing and Creative Doggedness
“Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”
Henry Builds a Cabin: Thoreau’s Joyfully Minimalist Life at Walden, Illustrated for Kids and Full of Wisdom for All
“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think they must have such a one as their neighbors have.”
Salinger and the Architecture of Personal Mythology
How “a broken soldier and a wounded soul transformed himself, through his art, into an icon of the twentieth century and then, through his religion, destroyed that art.”
The Shape of Spectacular Speech: An Infographic Analysis of What Made MLK’s “I Have a Dream” So Powerful
The poetics of presenting, or why beautiful metaphors are better than beautiful slides.
Art, Science, and Butterfly Metamorphosis: How a 17th-Century Woman Laid the Foundations of Modern Entomology
Remarkable drawings that shaped the course of science and radically defied gender norms.
How the Nobel Prize Was Born: A Surprising Story of Bad Journalism, Existential Guilt, and Dynamite
How a deplored “tradesman of death” brought to life the highest accolade of human achievement.
Conspicuous Outrage: Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf’s Nephew, on Sartorial Morality, the Art of Fashion, and the Futility of War
“In sociological studies fashion plays the role which has been allotted to Drosophila, the fruit fly, in the science of genetics.”
Emma Darwin’s Stirring Love Letter to Charles
“I feel in my inmost heart your admirable qualities & feelings & all I would hope is that you might direct them upwards.”
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